on saturday, he apologized and you said thank you. well, i said more than that. i should n first of all, it should not take him more than 1 days 8 days to that. we need the next president to be someone who could speak to racial issues and could take risks and open themselves up and have open arms asylum. they make a mistake and we all do and not to fall in defensive crouch. of course, i am very grateful that he did the right thing. i am sorry it took him 18 days and more than this, should have taken him years to address the 1994 crime bill. the fact that it was one of the things that s super charged mass incarcerations of this country that had many people serving on unjust sentences today. the fact that he suddenly now
well, i said more than that. first of all, it should not take him more than 18 days to do that. we need the next president to be someone who could speak to racial issues and could take risks and open themselves up and have open arms asylum. they make a mistake and we all do and not to fall in defensive crouch. of course, i am very grateful that he did the right thing. i am sorry it took him 18 days and more than this, should have taken him years to address the 1994 crime bill. the fact that it was one of the things that s super charged mass incarcerations of this country that had many people serving on unjust sentences today. the fact that he suddenly now speaking to issues he should have spoken to either when it
of bernie sanders are selling but he did not do that and did not stand up to him. do you know what, paul? i don t think there s evidence he will stand up to them in the way people are talking about. joe biden has reputation for pandering to that thing and do that on title ix in the sexual abuse guidelines during the obama ministration but joe biden is a politicians who can be whatever he needs to be but on that stage you got to decide will he stand up to the progressives and be a true moderate candidate or try to square the circle with all the elements of the democratic party which at the moment is impossible. paul: kim, what s the recipe if there is one for biden to make a comeback or can he make a comeback or are we watching a spiral down here? he s got to get out of this crouch. he can wish that this will be about president trump but it s not. it s officially about him. he s got to quit apologizing for things he s done in the past and
it leaves a weird worst-case scenario for everybody involved for the democratic party. yeah, that s right. institutions have a lot of choke points, and, you know, centrists have, you know, been dominating the house from the democratic side and the senate as well for a very long time. and they have their hands around that choke point. and they are a different generation. as i write about in the book, a lot of them were formed in the, you know, they were traumatized by the 1980s by witnessing ronald reagan kind of wipe them out. and they ve been in their defensive crouch for the last 30 years. and people like ocasio-cortez, who are born in the late 80s after reagan had already left office don t understand what this fear is all about. they don t fear republicans the way that they fear climate change or the way that they fear kind of cowardice from centrist democrats. and so when they see this it s just confusing to them. why aren t you fighting?
generation. as i write about in the book, a lot of them were formed in the, you know, they were traumatized by the 1980s by witnessing ronald reagan kind of wipe them out. and they ve been in their defensive crouch for the last 30 years. and people like ocasio-cortez, who are born in the late 80s after reagan had already left office don t understand what this fear is all about. they don t fear republicans the way that they fear climate change or the way that they fear kind of cowardice from centrist democrats. and so when they see this it s just confusing to them. why aren t you fighting? there are children in cages at the border. and so you have this huge tension boiling over on capitol hill. which like you said is juxtaposed against this 2020 campaign which is playing out on extraordinarily progressive terms so the whole thing just looks very strange to people. well, and that, joy, i think is one of the questions here. when you talk about obama 08, i always think back to the