Liberals go after Joe Biden

[left-of-center2012]

Liberals go after Joe Biden, trying to blunt his presidential candidacy and the recent centrist surge in the Democratic Party

The liberal wing of the Democratic Party launched a sudden volley of attacks against presidential candidate Joe Biden and his allies over the weekend, showing a new urgency to wrest control of the party from moderate forces that had seized an advantage in recent months.

Some of the most scathing, if veiled, admonitions came Sunday from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who repeatedly condemned “middle ground” policy ideas ... “We cannot go back to the old ways,” Sanders warned ... “We have got to go forward with a new and progressive agenda.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) delivered a fierce rebuke of Biden’s professed faith that Republicans will be more cooperative once President Trump is out of office. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi faced shouts from the audience in her hometown demanding that she and other Democratic leaders move to impeach Trump.

The broadsides amounted to the loudest warning yet from the party’s left flank that it intends to aggressively challenge the centrist ideas and cautious politics that have gained a foothold eight months before presidential balloting begins with the Iowa caucuses. After signs of promise earlier this year, when Sanders topped the polls and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) quickly asserted her influence on Capitol Hill, the liberal movement has stagnated.

Biden, a more traditional Democrat who has rejected Sanders’s brand of socialism and calls for dramatic change, has built a persistent and comfortable lead in the polls.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/liberals-go-after-joe-biden-trying-to-blunt-his-presidential-candidacy-and-the-recent-centrist-surge-in-the-democratic-party/2019/06/02/b0e20be4-8543-11e9-a491-25df61c78dc4_story.html?utm_term=.1a893917f3d6

[stonecutter357]

1. NTENSE: Joe Biden's GOES OFF on Those Who Harm/Hate LGBT People in Name of Culture/Religion

[samnsara]

4. hes actually just as effective on stage as trump is. He displays passion..

...and love. Trumps just a clown dancing at the end of a puppet string.

[beachbum bob]

2. bottom line. "liberals" never been the majority in the democratic party, we are a center-left

at best, never been a left-center

the problem is we have conservatives framing us as if we are all AOC types

[left-of-center2012]

6. "conservatives framing us as if we are all AOC types"

Amen

[shanny]

8. that's why we're winning so much, no doubt

and have been for the last 40 years

[LibFarmer]

15. Yes

That is what the blue wave of 2018 was all about.

Centrist Democrats won a vast majority of the 40 seats that were flipped, yet one or two twitter users get all the publicity.

[samnsara]

3. he will be ok.. hes been yelled at by worse ppl and he knows the game..

...but, like others, i will not give $$ to any candidate who blasts another one. They WILL get my vote if they are the Dem nom... but no bumper stickers, yard signs or $ if I feel they have aggressively bad mouthed any other dem nom..

[Peacetrain]

5. Its not liberals.. Joe Biden is a liberal.. it is the some who want to take

over the Democratic party the way the Trumpians took over the republican party..

[still_one]

7. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[peggysue2]

9. Exactly!

Joe Biden is a liberal as was Hillary Clinton as am I. This isn't liberals. This is the Far Left Channel and Republicans (the usual suspects) who desperately want to push Joe Biden from his comfortable lead.

These people are hell-bent on losing 2020 for the Democratic Party. We should not forget that.

[Demsrule86]

11. At least theTrumipan's win elections for their shitty side.

[Demsrule86]

10. Wow they really want to lose this time ....I Trump wasn't enough for them.they can

talk but can't they win the where we need to win...nope the midterms clearly show this.

[Demsrule86]

12. The losing candidates desperately attacking the only candidate who can win thre

general by rebuilding the blue wall.

[Hortensis]

13. "I am not now, nor have I ever been, a liberal Democrat." - Sanders

Sanders knows: The large mainstream of the party is the liberal wing. He's spent his life despising and going along with it to get along (voting 96% with those he calls corrupt).

We have a smallish conservative wing on the right and a smallish dissident wing on the left. Call those for what they are. They're ranges and mixes of course. Some on dissident left are still mostly to somewhat liberal; it's hard to predict just where liberal traits are overwhelmed by the intolerance, irrational righteousness, aggressive hostility, and delusion that characterize increasing extremism.

BUT, liberals tend to be workably agreeable, cooperative, understanding, and respectful of those holding other views -- how ELSE are we able to maintain this vastly diverse big tent of different peoples and passions?

While the whole purpose of being LW radicals, zealots, dissidents is to oppose this giant alliance that is the liberal mainstream. Of course they oppose Biden. Even if their natures didn't require it, not to oppose would cancel their reason for existence.

[LibFarmer]

14. A very small but loud minority

having a hissy fit ... happens every time.

Many of those people are not Democrats but like disruption of order far more than any policy.

This will actually make Biden stronger.

[Gothmog]

16. The vast bulk of the party is not part of the extreme liberal wing of the party

I like Joe Biden and believe that he is the most electable candidate. If sanders is the nominee, then trump will win 45+ states

[SouthernProgressive]

17. So Sanders now supports the liberal wing of the Democratic Party?

I wouldn't tell his base that.

What I really mean to say is that this author has now clue what they are talking about.

[mcar]

18. Incorrect framing by WaPo

Biden is a liberal. It is those on the far left who are attacking him.