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Joe Biden’s Platform for 2020: Anti-Populism
By artappraiser on Sat, 09/23/2017 - 7:07pm |By criticizing the views of both Berniecrats and Trumpites, Biden is positioning himself as the antidote to populism in all its forms and flavors
By Billie Scher @ Politico.com, Sept. 23
On Monday, former Vice President Joe Biden wrote a blog post that proves two things: Blogging isn’t dead and neither is Biden’s political career. In fact, in Biden’s essay, and in other little-noticed public pronouncements, you can see him sculpting a role for the 2020 presidential campaign that perhaps only he could get away with playing: the voice of anti-populism.
[....] Biden’s essay [....] made a bit of news in wonk circles because Biden used it to announce his opposition to a “universal basic income,” that newly vogue policy proposal [....]
But there’s more in the post to decipher. Biden criticized the “Silicon Valley executives” who have championed universal basic income for “selling American workers short” and undermining the “dignity” of work.
He recoiled at rhetoric, often wielded by Senator Bernie Sanders and his acolytes, that demonizes corporations [....] And he cut against the prevailing sentiment among Trump-friendly working-class whites that not everyone should go to college: [.....]
A few days earlier, the former vice president published a New York Times op-ed deriding President Donald Trump’s nationalistic foreign policy [....]
Is he even running for president? We can’t know for sure. But consider the following [....]
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http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/23/joe-biden-president-2020-anti-populism-215638
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Is populism democracy’s deadly cure?
By Simon Tormey @ TheConversation.com, Sept. 20
Tormey is Professor of Political Theory and Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney.
This article is part of the Democracy Futures project, a joint global initiative between The Conversation and Sydney Democracy Network. The project aims to stimulate fresh thinking about the many challenges facing democracies in the 21st century.
This piece is part of a series, After Populism, about the challenges populism poses for democracy. It comes from a talk at the Populism: What’s Next for Democracy? symposium hosted by the Institute for Governance & Policy Analysis at the University of Canberra in collaboration with Sydney Democracy Network.
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/23/2017 - 7:18pm
Many of the earlier articles in their populism series look intriguing, all the more so because they are looking at this from outside the American & European bubbles:
September 7, 2017
Progressive politics is losing to a fantasy state of mind
MIck Chisnall, University of Canberra
August 10, 2017
We frown on voters’ ambivalence about democracy, but they might just save it
Adele Webb, University of Sydney
July 20, 2017
Everyday makers defy populists’ false promise to embody ‘your voice’
Henrik Bang, University of Canberra
July 11, 2017
Modi’s polarising populism makes a fiction of a secular, democratic India
Irfan Ahmad, Max Planck Institute
June 6, 2017
Deliberative democracy must rise to the threat of populist rhetoric
Nicole Curato, University of Canberra and Lucy J Parry, University of Canberra
by artappraiser on Sat, 09/23/2017 - 7:25pm
Criticizing Silicon Valley execs and DC Pols for selling America's workers short is the essence of populism. Biden is positioning himself as an opponent of the elites and a supporter of workers. That is indeed populism.
Edit to add: Biden may have been implicitly taking a shot at Bernie when he said that we shouldn't place all the blame on corporate America but of course Bernie doesn't place all the blame on corporate America. In any event, Biden's next sentence is populist - "It is true that the balance has shifted too much in favor of corporations and against workers."
The reason this is populism is because Biden is describing the essential struggle in America as one between those who champion the economic elites on one side with workers and the middle-class and formerly middle-class on the other.
by HSG on Sat, 09/23/2017 - 7:27pm
Hal, you are consistent. You make no sense, and much of what you say is simply not factual.
And no, I don't want to accept your assignment to prove what I have just said. It is so obvious, that I assign you to disprove it.
by CVille Dem on Sat, 09/23/2017 - 9:47pm
No matter who it is Hal can find some reason they're a populist. Obama was a populist, that's why he won. Biden is a populist and would have won. Everybody except Hillary. He can't find a single thing she said that was populist. That tells you all you need to know about Hal.
by ocean-kat on Sat, 09/23/2017 - 10:55pm
Obama was not a populist at all, did not govern as one. He won in 2008 because he ran a more populist campaign than either Hillary or McCain, had far less baggage than Clinton, was more likeable than either, W had tanked the economy, and the country had turned against Iraq. Also he just seems Presidential. Tall, cool, handsome, smart.
Obama won in 2012 because the economy was starting to pick up and nobody could have been less of a populist than Mitt "corporations are people my friend" Romney.
by HSG on Sun, 09/24/2017 - 5:32am
Whether it is accurate to call what Biden is doing anti-populist or not, I think the author is correctly pegging the current zeitgeist. I am seeing indications of it everywhere in all the news and op-eds I read: after Trump is done, populism is going to lose its appeal for quite some time, and not just nationally, but globally. People will be looking for a grown-up "daddy" who will make it all better and tell them the right thing to do, not someone who feeds their fears and prejudices.
Edit to add: and while Biden is not always seen as an excellent candidate "on the stump", he is a very smart and experienced pol, and I would not be surprised if he is seeing that anti-populism is where the party should go for 2020.
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/24/2017 - 10:52am
I hear he's got his Ouija board out figuring out what Beau would do. Very touching.
[in a peculiar twist, Beau's widow has hooked up with his brother - something I thought only Hindus do when not self-immolating. Anyway, not my focus or concern, just a quirk noted while Googling.]
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 09/24/2017 - 11:12am
The word populism needs to be sent to the shop for repairs. If the term is going to be used interchangeably with expressions like, "some large swath of the electorate", then which politician is not a populist?
Trump was not a populist in his campaign. He promised to retain all kinds of different privileges under assault by the "liberal agenda". That a large number of voters were attracted to that message doesn't make them a movement or even a self identified interest group (except for the obvious exceptions). They liked the Charmin advertisement so they bought Charmin.
Clinton was not a populist in her campaign because she advanced the idea that the Democratic Party was a coalition of different people with common goals. She was arguing that the house did not have to be burnt down to serve the interest of the people, it just had to figure out what the best policies were.
I think it is fair to describe Sanders as a populist. He directly appealed to class differences as the primary condition requiring change. On the other hand, much of the talk about restraining trade deals and commercial taxation are traditional Democratic tactics to turn entrepreneurs into engines of socially just production.
Joe Biden? Sorry, I dropped my map.
by moat on Sun, 09/24/2017 - 6:37pm