GOP strategists want to cast Biden as a far left radical. Image does not square with reality.

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Joe Biden as Joe College - Historian John R. Thelin

When Joe Biden was in college from 1961 to 1965, he was not Radical Joe but Regular Joe. This finding in the front-page New York Times story on Oct. 18 was consistent with Biden’s explanation that “Other people marched. I ran for office.” As one college friend recalled, “occupying a dean’s office, or something like that, was not his style.”

There’s nothing shocking about Biden’s recollection, even though some GOP strategists now want to cast Biden as far left. That image does not square with the realities of his past or present. Joe Biden was “Joe College.”
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Recollections about Biden’s political views in college frequently emphasize his dress. The point seems to be that since he wore Weejuns and a sport coat, he, of course, must have been conservative. In fact, his clothing provided no clue to his political orientation, then or now.
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Biden was mainstream and moderate, characteristics that put him in the heart of campus life in his era. Student protest was not always rebellious in clothing and appearance. Activists were usually well behaved in the mid-1960s. If Biden is designated as a collegiate figure of his era, then the images of violent student demonstrations need to be tempered by the reminder that most of the events associated with the '60s really did not take place until the '70s. For example, the shootings at Kent State University and later at Jackson State University took place in May 1970 -- six years after Biden graduated from college.
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The fact that Biden was a regular Joe, not radical Joe, did not mean that he was not influenced by dramatic social and political events of the 1960s. It does suggest that he had the potential to shape these changing concerns into a political platform that can still have resiliency for mainstream Americans today. His perspective and platform can provide the balance between the far left and the far right in the 2020 presidential campaign.
- Inside Higher Ed

[Iliyah]

1. The GOP are insane . ..

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. "Squaring with Reality"? I don't think that's a goal of Republicans.

All they care about is winning. Power.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. They had a script all prepared and ready to go

for Bernie Sanders or, to a lesser degree, Elizabeth Warren

But then Joe Biden-Trump's worst nightmare- won. And the GOP simply can't convince people that he- or Kamala Harris- are raging radical socialists. And if you spend any time around actual radical socialists and other people whom are on the far left side of the spectrum, you'll know that they loathe him (or at least holding their noses to vote for them because they hate Trump slightly more).

[Crunchy Frog]

4. 30 to 40 percent of the American public are living in an alternate reality.

This is just some more of the "world building" being done by the propagandists.

We should stop focusing on trying to "correct" their misinformation and start pointing out that this is a manufactured fake reality.