With doddering, bad-touch Joe Biden as the establishment’s designated “man who can take down Donald Trump,” the rush is on to reconfigure him as a principled man with a sharp mind. In service to this mythologizing, Matthew Dallek, a professor at the George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management, has written an article explaining that when it comes to Joe Biden, his political longevity can be summed up in a single word: “decency.” He makes this case in a New York Daily News opinion piece appropriately entitled “It’s the decency, stupid: The secret of Joe Biden’s resiliency.”
What’s Dallek’s case for claiming that Joe Biden is decent?
First, his wife and daughter died in a car accident in 1972, and then his son died from cancer 43 years later:
It is hard to think of another major political figure who lost both his first wife Neilia and two children 43 years apart: Neilia and baby daughter Naomi to a traffic accident in 1972, his adult son Beau to glioblastoma, a brain cancer, in 2015. His pain has enabled him to connect with people at a gut level, giving him the type of empathy that political leaders rarely manage to tap with so much poignancy.
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