The president is betting that he can neutralize most hot-button cultural issues with silence. His Republican opponent may not let him.
Biden goes to Florida to talk about Social Security and Medicare, not “wokeness.”is drawing from a very old Democratic playbook as he deals with a divided Congress and plots his reelection campaign. Although he’s yet to announce he’s running, Biden is already working to exploit the ideological excesses of congressional Republicans, particularly with respect to entitlement programs.
So is Biden ’24 going to be Clinton ’96 all over again? Not exactly. The Democrats’ message in ’96 wasn’t all about GOP budget cuts and threats to Medicare. They also tried to reassure more culturally conservative working-class swing voters that Clinton was serious about his call for “personal responsibility.” The big symbolic moment was Clinton’s mid-campaign decision to sign a Republican-written
You can see an echo of progressive anger over the 1996 welfare-reform law in Democratic reactions to Biden’s recent decision to sign a Republican resolution. Basically, Biden discarded a strongly held party shibboleth — support for D.C. home rule as a way station to statehood — to avoid giving Republicans a talking point that would reinforce their typically groundless claims that Democrats want to “defund the police” and empty the prisons.
More fundamentally, Biden’s circle believes that voters don’t want to be subjected to fights about such polarizing cultural issues and would prefer that elected officials focus more on daily economic concerns such as inflation, jobs, and health care.
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