Joe Biden, Culture Warrior
USA Today’s Michael Collins insisted, “but President Joe Biden seldom answers.” In the
Washington Post, Paul Waldman argued that because he has broken the link “between culture and policy,” Biden is “kryptonite to the Republican culture war.” Most of Biden’s policies must be viewed as part of a concerted “strategy to reduce the corrosive impact of hot-button social, cultural, and racial issues,” according to
New York Times columnist Thomas B. Edsall. And while “Republicans are busy trying to bait Democrats on culture war issues,” the
Week’s Damon Linker contended, the party in power is “refusing to play along” and getting high marks from voters as a result.