Opinion: A Biden run would be good for the country. It could be hell for Biden.
By E.J. Dionne Jr. E.J. Dionne Jr. Columnist covering national politics Email Bio Follow Columnist April 7 at 7:06 PM It would be good for the country and the Democratic Party for Joe Biden to run for president. But it could be hell on him.
All of this would be disastrous for Democrats and progressives. The only way to know for certain if Biden is, in fact, the best candidate to beat Trump is for him to get in the race — to prove he can appeal to young voters despite his age; to demonstrate he can navigate a party that has changed dramatically since he entered the Senate in 1973; and to show he can absorb all the blows that will come his way courtesy of opposition research into his astonishingly long career on the public stage.
Meaning, for example, that Biden’s support for the 1994 crime bill, which he could once wave proudly as a banner of toughness, is now a liability. Most on the left see overincarceration, especially of African Americans, as both a problem and an injustice.
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