Cynthia Nixon attacks Joe Biden for calling Mike Pence a "decent man"

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64. Biden behaves as was once normal for gentlemen in politics,

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in the days of functional government where the parties routinely worked across the aisle and socialized with each other as part of their work. No one should mistake courtesy and determination to work with opponents to reach common goals -- if possible -- for weakness or lack of principle.

By the standards of the New Deal era that ended in the 1980s and those of this new era, what Democrats did to try to not lose their offices to Republicans entirely during our nation's dark conservative retreat of the 1980s-1990s doesn't look good.

In those days, though, the Democratic Party was so weakened and rejected by majorities of voters that many experts said it was dying. That the age of liberalism and progressivism was OVER. Well, we didn't die, but the American electorate in shifting right and becoming more conservative, including many on the left who wanted a retrenching to a mostly fictional past, did make us increasingly unable to protect the liberal and progressive government we had created.

Biden was senator in the middle of that battle and played a role in some things we all regret now, but back then he and other survivors in office were able to save all the New Deal and most of liberalism's civil rights advances, all of which the Republicans fully intended to destroy. Our Democrats even managed some genuine advances and overall were able to block most of the damage and return to pre-Constitution thinking that the Republicans were (and are) determined on.

And now Biden and the rest have been operating in a very different environment, one empowered by increasing strengthening of many once-wobbly/sometimes-Democratic voters, who have seen what conservatism has brought over the past 40 years, and increasingly threatens, and have rediscovered they want the blessings of liberalism after all, and of the progressivism in government that is intrinsic to it.

"As Justice Brandeis said, 'We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.' We must end that injustice and restore the public’s faith in a better future for themselves and their children.' ~ Nancy Pelosi speaking to the nation