Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden disagreed over Congress’s 2008 bank bailout during the Democratic debate on Sunday. Photo: Kevin Lamarque/ReutersWASHINGTON—Joe Biden’s emergence as the 2020 Democratic presidential front-runner is widely cast as a victory for moderates over progressives. But the former vice president’s platform also shows how far left the party’s center on economic policy has moved in recent years.
On taxes, health care, climate change and labor rights, Mr. Biden proposes a significantly bigger government role than Hillary Clinton did during her 2016 presidential bid and what the Obama-Biden ticket advocated during their two White House campaigns.
Dems are crazy
Yah think? Completely different than just 10 years ago.
And what is considered far left in this country is centrist or moderate in the rest of the developed world.
No-one much is listening to News Corp's futile bleating on behalf of billionaires, are they? You can actually hear Rupert Murdoch growling these words, and then spitting in disgust. The horror of Americans realising they've been shafted by the wealthiest families, yet again.
The party’s Center shifted right because of Sanders and his work - not because of Biden. In any other country Biden would be a Republican and would not be in the same party as Sanders. - A Canadian trying to help my confused American friends...
As culture changes so do standards and definitions. For example I, along with many others are involved in an interracial relationship. Look at the gay rights movements or the increase of female participation in the work force. These were radical concepts a generation or 2 ago.
Rather silly, considering the gap between what these people are running on and what their owners will actually allow them to do.
it is interesting that it is consider far left to use tax money collected from the peasantry (cause we, the wealthy dont really pay much in tax anymore) tax money from the peasants for the peasantry....is it that we might lose the vig? is that upsetting you, WSJ?
an education expert said that? That's why our children graduate high school unable to read. The ideological spectrum doesn't shift because a bunch of socialists think they are the majority. Biden is left, Sanders is far left. This doesn't move the fulcrum.
There is no such thing as a Dem moderate.
Notice how Biden is now shuffling when walking?
It's only due to the younger generations insistence of much needed change inwhich is imperative
And would have been conservative 50 years ago.
oh and god forbid we let these 'lefties' take over, right, WSJ, cause they MIGHT do something for the people!!! And NOT put the bankers, corporations and wealthy first!!! We can't have that happen, nope. GOD FORBID
Another garbage analysis.