Joe Biden doesn't get it

He just doesn't understand what it would take to fix America

Joe Biden.

Joe Biden is the most popular possible presidential candidate among Democrats so far. He shouldn't be.

Setting aside his awful political history, let's give a fair shake to his political views, which he outlined in detail in a speech at the Brookings Institution last year. His remarks demonstrate that while Biden is not quite the grotesque Big Finance stooge he was in his early career, his ideas about political economy are badly mistaken and out of date. He just is not a good fit for the United States in 2020.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.