Media Mislabel Joe Biden’s Ideology
23rd September 2020
Part of the Misdirection Machine.
Democratic presidents have become steadily more progressive since Jimmy Carter. That’s because Democratic voters have shifted to the left over the last 30 years, in a trend that has accelerated over the last five years, according to surveys.
Yet, Democratic candidates like Joe Biden are erroneously depicted as moderate by “conservatives” who work for progressive newspapers and call for defeat of all Republicans; and self-described “lifelong Republicans” who have actually voted against Republicans for years.
Joe Biden’s openly progressive supporters admit that he is further to the left than past Democratic presidential nominees. As the progressive Peter Beinart put it in The Atlantic, “Despite embracing an agenda that is further to the left than that of any Democratic nominee in decades, [Biden has] avoided the specific policy proposals and catchphrases that Republicans find easiest to attack. As a result, he appears more centrist than he actually is.”