officials currently in power now are currently devastated by the consequences of putin s invasion. that that s true. they want to openly, and everybody understands that that s a unique situation. for the most time ever, we are moving in a backwards direction. we had a lot of difficulties in the 70s and 80s and 90s and we are some what open to the world and the direction is very different. right now, russia is disconnected from global markets, logistics and so on. this has never happened before, and the people in power fully realized that. when i say devastated, i mean it. president biden was asked this week specifically about reports that putin is misinformed by some of his advisers. these people in the upper
things like, i don t know, protecting democracy, then, you know, you do go ahead with that party line vote. but i think that the idea of negotiating over this amount of money or that program, we don t live in that kind of world anymore, unfortunately. i wish we did, but we don t. joe, i was going back and reading on this last night. in may of 2019, a couple of weeks after joe biden got into the campaign, he was up in new hampshire on a campaign stop, and he said, republicans, mark my words, are going to have an epiphany. not a joke, he said, they ll have an epiphany, when there s a new president, they can push donald trump to the side, set at the table like we did in the 70s and 80s and 90s as a senator. i think talking to people, he s been genuinely surprised that that kind of comedy just doesn t exist anymore. you can get in the oval office, invite everybody in, and they might sit there and listen to you, but then they walk off the door and trash you in a tweet and try to raise
reform the department and at the same time put an end to this violence that is intolerable. and not just in that race, it could be an issue that expands even beyond that. a reality check, though, the crime is increasing not just in democratic-led cities but also in republican-led cities, bigger cities, smaller cities. but ezra klein writes this, fear of violence undermines liberal policies. just look at america post-9/11 or after the crime surges of the 70s and 80s and 90s. strong men politicians win. punitive responses like mass incarceration and warrior policing rise. social trust collapses. so is there a concern among liberals that this has to be dealt with, or should there be? well, i think there definitely should be. i think there s a concern when you re talking particularly about looking at congressional races over the last couple of
front runner. kamala harris definitely helped to prove that point last night. look, you spoke with joe biden immediately after the debate ended. what did he have to say and what are folks thinking this morning? yeah, chris, look. i think joe biden knew he was going to come into this as the front runner with a target on his back. his campaign was prepared that he would have to relitigate elements of his past. they were hoping to keep this a forward-looking debate as much as possible with a focus on donald trump and a focus on biden s policies now in 2019, not his regard back in the 70s and 80s and 90s. i think you could hear some of the frustration? his voice when i talked to him on stage immediately after the debate ended. listen. is it frustrating for you in 2019 to be relitigating these debates at this point? it should be about the future and what we re going to do to deal with institutional racism. as for harris, this was obviously a calculated moment on her part. some of
there. that is just a reminder how long he has been in politics. that s a phrase really describing the 60s criticism of traditional liberalism and not one used an awful lot anymore. indication of the challenge he s facing. elected in 1972. he has taken a lot of positions over the years that reflected the democratic dilemma of the 70s and 80s and 90s trying to hold on to culturally conservative blue collar white voters that look must less defensible and the democratic party doesn t rely nearly as much on those as though replaced by the millennials. all he has to talk about and explain how he, how the views he expressed then evolved and how he fits into the modern democratic party. having said that, when talk about the demographic makeup who votes and who s picking this democratic nominee, one thing we don t talk about much, it s relatively older. almost every state. 60% or more voters are over 45. we have a lot of younger