Joe Biden is strangely familiar – CNN Policy

"It's not what we are, the way we treat people," said Biden during his first interview as a candidate on ABC's "The View." "There is an American creed, it is decency, honor, including everyone, leaving no one behind."

It sounds a lot like this, from 2016 Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton:

"We are in the battle for the soul of this nation.I think history will turn to the President and his four years as an absurd moment.But if we give Donald Trump eight years at home White, he will forever and fundamentally change the character of this nation – who we are – and I can not stand by that and watch it happen. "

"And the kinds of things that Donald Trump has told you, that are lowering, defaming groups of Americans, people who have every right to be respected by someone who wants to be President of the United States, and he stands there and makes fun of a disabled journalist, he calls Mexican women pigs, criminals and rapists, lowers Muslims and attacks a star family. gold whose son died in combat in Iraq – it's not who we are – we have a lot of projects, but we also have values, my friends, and we will defend American values. "

Some of these similarities can be reduced to typical political rhetoric. ALL politicians speak of value and character.

But this does not clearly explain the overlap between Clinton's speech against Trump in 2016 and the argument constructed by Biden in the early days of his candidacy for the 2020 presidency.

Clinton's argument boiled down to this: Donald Trump is not the best of us. He represents an aberrant strain of American, uh, enthusiastic who should not be rewarded. He wants to divide the country, not to unite it.

Who is, essentially, the exactly the same argument Biden is doing. Here is Biden from a stop in New Hampshire (CNN's Casey Riddle):

"I'm running for three reasons, I want to restore the soul of this country, and secondly, I really wish, very frankly, to rebuild the backbone of this country, bringing this time everyone, the middle class." And thirdly, what I want to do is what I want, we talked about it earlier, unify the country. "

That's an argument Clinton could have made. In fact, she did it basically!

Point: Why is Biden pursuing a failed four-year project? He is banking on the fact that after four years of Trump, voters will be much more open to a call for decency and a return to normalcy.