Just a quick post that the reason Joe Biden is the presumptive DNC nominee is because the party leadership and its network of pundits and consultants have decided to carry Joe Biden over the line. The candidate can’t carry himself. So the party flexed its muscles to shift all significant endorsements to Biden’s column to secure a Super Tuesday victory. The typical Democratic voter hasn’t seen Joe Biden much, so they are voting for the Joe Biden they remember. I really do think that’s what’s happening. If Trump supporters imagine their man being an actual billionaire, who got fantastic deals done, and has the expertise and ability to run our massive Federal government, then Biden’s voters think he is still Obama’s attack dog - the man who pumped iron at his desk in 2015 and was nearly gifted a C7 Corvette Z06 by workers at the Bowling Green plant.

Let’s look at that White House Correspondents Dinner clip because I really do think that there are millions of Americans who think that Joe Biden looks and acts the same today as he did here in the spring of 2014:

This is the Joe Biden in millions of voters’ memories. It is this Joe Biden who is running against the ‘strong man’ Trump that his base worships.

And just today, there is more standing still, as Congressman Jim Clayburn announced that his Select committee into the SARS-CoV-2 will not be investigating the 8 weeks Trump wasted in response to the pandemic. Incredible.

Which brings me to the point of this post. While the Democratic leadership has decided to freeze in-place, a small, growing number of progressive Democrats are reflecting the ideological shift at the voter / constituent level. When asked about the differences between her and Joe Biden, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez said it bluntly. She said that in any parliamentary democracy, she and the six or so other progressive representatives would be in their own party. There’s no way they would be in the same party as Joe Biden.

People are getting mad at her for saying it, which is stupid. The establishment Democrats are mad that she's too liberal and attack her from the left, as Nancy Pelosi has, and then the same Democrats are mad that she says she wouldn't be one of them in a different country. Well, which is it, idiots?