We will have government-run health care for all, whether we want it or not. There will be no choices in the brave new world of democratic socialism. Biden's support for a 'public option' that would give Americans a choice of buying into a Medicare-like health plan is seen on the left as capitulation. They openly advocate abolishing private insurance altogether. On health care, they no longer make a pretense of promising voters that they can keep their health plans, like Obama did. They want to spend tens of trillions of dollars to replace every vehicle that uses a combustion engine, bring high-speed rail to every corner of the country, upgrade or replace every building in the United States and eliminate all fossil-fuel energy. On climate, they don't want the government to simply invest in green energy, like President Barack Obama did. Many liberals believe, as Ocasio-Cortez has put it, that 'capitalism is irredeemable.' So for many Democrats, the Obama-Biden approach to governing is now considered too moderate.

Well, generating consensus is not what the left wants. 'This nation cannot function without generating consensus,' he said in New Hampshire last week. He says on the stump that Trump is an 'aberration' and predicts that if the president is defeated, Republicans will work toward bipartisan reform, which Biden insists is the only way to get anything worthwhile done. Biden's supposed heresy is that he believes in working with Republicans.

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