Sally Kohn: Biden’s Support of Big Business Is ‘Tone Deaf,’ ‘Out of Step’ with Americans
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KOHN: "I mean, good honor but I’m going to have to respectfully disagree. Look, Joe Biden has name recognition, people like him and in fairness he’s the most sort of populist-seeming of a long legacy of centrist corporate Democrats. He talked tough, he’s from Scranton, he talks about that all the time so he sort of seemed like the most — bearing in mind he’s from the great banking state of Delaware. But he earned that reputation. But in fairness, the country — look, the country never really should have had corporate centrist Democrats but certainly in this moment, that is so tone deaf and out of step, not only with what the country needs but with what the American people across the aisle want. And it turns out we are a fundamentally more Progressive, inclusive populist country that wants things like higher taxes on the rich and solutions to climate change and corporations and big business to be held accountable and we need Democratic candidates who, I don’t know, actually side with the majority of Americans, not to mention the majority of Democrats, as opposed to siding with big business and Wall Street."
