Editorial of The New York Sun |
August 18, 2020
The idea that there’s such a thing as a “Biden Conservative” is being
advanced by Bret Stephens of the Times. It’s about “upholding your
principles at the expense of your politics,” he argues. The piece
follows a column in the Wall Street Journal by Rahm Emanuel begging the
“Biden Republicans” to stick with the Democrats the way the Reagan
Democrats have stuck with the GOP.
Good luck to them both, we say. It may be too soon for newspaper
endorsements in a presidential race (the nominations haven’t been fully
conferred yet). It’s not too soon, though, to suggest that the formulas
sketched by Messrs. Stephens and Emanuel fail to compute for the Sun.
It’s just hard to see the attraction of Mr. Biden to someone who favors
Republican principles
Mr. Emanuel asks us to be clear about 1968, when feuding Democrats
upended the progressive movement. “Today, by contrast,” he writes, “even
if Democrats disagree on the path forward, we share the same
objectives: expanding health coverage, curtailing climate change, and
promoting economic equality and social justice.” In other words,
anti-Republican tax increases.......To Read More...
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