The Anachronism
Joe Biden’s inclination toward physical contact tags him as a creature from another era.
by Alex Wagner
Apr 03, 2019
3 minutes
There has always been a thawing-out-of-something-frozen quality to a potential Joe Biden candidacy, an understanding that the man himself might be out of step with these times, but that anachronism might serve him—and the Democratic Party—well. Hardscrabble Scranton Joe, after all, was never going to be the Gen Xer who , but he’s the guy who remembers what it was like to make an honest dollar for an honest day’s work on the assembly line.
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