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21 Aug 2020
Daniel McCarthy
Joe Biden’s Republican Convention
Joe Biden’s Republican Convention
Daniel McCarthy
Joe Biden’s Republican Convention

Joe Biden’s range of emotional expression has narrowed with age – when he wants to convey feeling now, he shouts. Anger is the only thing that gets through, even when he’s trying to be hopeful or inspiring. And his acceptance remarks at the Democratic convention were well short of inspirational: the nominee didn’t seem tired, but his words did. From the first day of the convention, viewers had to wonder, ‘Why is Joe Biden the nominee of this party?’, a party that neither looks nor sounds like the almost octogenarian ex-VP. Biden has testified to his friendships with segregationists in the Senate. He was the sponsor of a historic anti-crime bill. But the Democratic Party today is fully behind the Black Lives Matter movement, whose signature policy demand is to defund the police.

Joe Biden’s Republican Convention
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