Biden: 'Middle class' is an insult in D.C.

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Biden: 'Middle class' is an insult in D.C.
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Vice President Joe Biden let slip an unflattering fact about the political class on Wednesday while seeking to identify himself with the common man:

And when I say the middle class — the first time I said it, and I referred to myself as "Middle Class Joe," you know in Washington that's not meant as a compliment. It means you're not sophisticated. [YouTube]

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Bonnie Kristian
Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.