In criticizing the Demcoratc over-attacks on Joe Biden, Bill Press makes a point we have made in the past:
The Hill - One of the greatest political stories of the 20th century is how
Johnson, himself a former pro-segregation Southern Democrat,
strong-armed Georgia’s Richard Russell and other racist Southern
Democrats to secure passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The fact is,
there would be no Voting Rights Act if Johnson had refused to deal with
Russell. And there would have been no 25-year renewal of the Voting
Rights Act in 1982 if Biden and Kennedy had been unwilling to work with
Eastland and Talmadge.
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This is disingenuous. Biden isn't bragging about "dealing with" racist southern Republicans to get a Civil Rights Bill passed -- to get them to compromise on something that would actually improve on the status quo and make it less racist. He's bragging about dealing with them for its own sake, based on his actual sympathy for their position on stuff like busing. Biden's entire career is a trash fire on everything -- cheerleading war, being in the hip pocket of the credit card industry, being a copyright maximalist who does the bidding of RIAA and MPAA. He's not a realist who deals with evil in order to achieve a real but limited good -- he thinks he's a "good guy" because in his mind that's defined by sympathizing with and getting along with the bad guys. At the same time he publicly expresses his sympathy and liking for segregationists, he touts an entire career of "Sister Souljah moments" involving anecdotes about posing as an alpha male with racist caricatures like "Corn Pop." If you're expecting some kind of "Nixon to China" scenario where he suddenly manifests a non-garbage side, don't. There's no there there.
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