Joe Biden pivots to be the voice of anti-populism to counter the populists Trump and Sanders.
After all, someone has to stand up for corporate America. And make the establishment-groomed Kamala Harris look like a champion of the people.
“Blood and power intoxicate; they help to develop callousness and debauchery. The mind then becomes capable of the most abnormal cruelty, which it regards pleasure; the man and the citizen are swallowed up in the tyrant; and the return to human dignity, repentance, moral resurrection, becomes almost impossible."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead