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If Biden Runs, They\u2019ll Tear Him Up<\/h1>\n
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Big Al says: If Peggy Noonan is correct, and he thinks that she is, her editorial shows just how low many of the Democrats have sunk. Look at its list of potetial candidates, yes all twenty of so of them! God help us if they prevail.<\/em><\/p>\n

The old Democratic Party was warm, like him. The new one rising is colder, less human and divisive.<\/h2>\n
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By Peggy NoonanApril 4, 2019 7:24 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t do it, Joe.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t run for president. It won\u2019t work, you won\u2019t get the nomination, your loss will cause pain and not only for you.<\/p>\n

And your defeat will be worse than sudden, it will be poignant.<\/p>\n

Right now operatives for the other candidates are trying to scare you out of jumping in. We all know that what you intended as warmth is now received as a boundary violation. You addressed this in a video that was crisp and friendly: You never meant to cause discomfort, you intend to change your ways.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not going away. It will linger, and more will come.<\/p>\n

Democratic operatives do not fear you will win the nomination\u2014they think you\u2019re too old, your time has passed, you\u2019re not where the energy of the base is, or the money. But they do not want you taking up oxygen the next six to 10 months as you sink in the polls. And they don\u2019t want you swooping in to claim the middle lane. Others already have a stake there, or mean to.<\/p>\n

In the past you were never really slimed and reviled by your party; you were mostly teased and patronized. But if you get in the race this time, it will be different. They will show none of the old respect for you, your vice presidency or your past fealty to the cause. And you are in the habit of receiving respect. Soon the topic will turn, in depth, to Anita Hill, the Clinton crime bill, your friendliness to big business. You have opposed partial-birth abortion. Also, the old plagiarism video will come back and be dissected. It was more than 30 years ago, and for a lot of reporters and voters it will be a riveting story, and brand new.<\/p>\n

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Joe Biden at the 1987 Iowa State Fair. PHOTO:SHELLY KATZ\/THE LIFE IMAGES COLLECTION\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n

You backed the Iraq war. That question will be resurrected, as opposed to redebated. It is always fair to redebate it\u2014to be asked, \u201cWhy did your generation of Democratic politicians back that war. Looking back what did you misunderstand?\u201d But it will only be resurrected, and thrown in your face.<\/p>\n

You will be judged to be old-school, and insufficiently doctrinaire. The current Democratic Party is different from the one you entered in the late 1960s, not only in policies but in mood, tone, style. Today\u2019s rising young Democrats see no honor in accommodation, little virtue in collegiality.<\/p>\n

In the old party of classic 20th-century Democratic liberalism, they wanted everyone to rise. Those who suffered impediments\u2014minorities, women, working people trying to unionize\u2014would be given a boost. There\u2019s plenty to go around, America\u2019s a rich country, let the government get in and help.<\/p>\n

The direction, or at least the aspiration, was upward, for everybody.<\/p>\n

The mood of the rising quadrants of the new party is more pinched\u2014more abstractedly aggrieved, more theoretical. Less human. Now there\u2019s a mood not of Everyone Can Rise but of Some Must Be Taken Down. White people in general, and white males in particular, are guilty of intractable privilege. It\u2019s bitter, resentful, divisive.<\/p>\n

And it is at odds with the spirit in which your political categories were formed. Actually, your politics always struck me as being like the World War II movies Americans of a certain age grew up on. The American soldiers are in the foxhole in Bataan, and there\u2019s the working-class guy from Brooklyn, the tall Ivy League guy, the baker\u2019s apprentice from Ohio. They\u2019re all together and equal, like the country they represent. When the war\u2019s over they\u2019ll probably stay friends and the Brooklyn guy will be in the union and the Ivy League fancy-pants will be in management, but they\u2019ll quickly forge the new contract and shake on the deal because back when it counted we were all in it together.<\/p>\n

That is not the 2019 Democratic Party! This party would note, correctly, that there was little racial diversity in the foxhole, and would elaborate that its false unity was built on intersectional oppressions that render its utility as a unifying metaphor null.<\/p>\n

The party\u2019s young theorists are impatient with such gooey patriotic sentiment. America is not good guys in a foxhole to them, it\u2019s crabs in a barrel with the one who gets to the top getting yanked down to the bottom\u2014deservedly.<\/p>\n

Your very strength\u2014that you enjoy talking to both sides, that deep in your heart you see no one as deplorable\u2014will be your weakness. You aren\u2019t enough of a warrior. You\u2019re sweet, you\u2019re weak, you\u2019re half-daffy. You\u2019re meh.<\/em><\/p>\n

At this point you\u2019re not out of step, you\u2019re out of place.<\/p>\n

The press too will have certain biases, and not only because they\u2019re 30 and 40 years younger than you and would like to see their careers associated with the rise of someone their age. Their bias is also toward drama, as you well know\u2014toward pathos, and the end of something. They love that almost as much as the beginning of something. They can\u2019t wait to write their Lion in Winter stories. \u201cThe Long Goodbye.\u201d \u201cThe Last Campaign.\u201d \u201cBiden faltered for just a moment when a white-haired woman put her hand to his face and said, \u2018I remember you from \u201988, Joe. We all do, and we love you.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that is apart from those young reporters who consider themselves culture cops, and who enjoy beating people like you with the nightstick of their wokeness.<\/p>\n