#325 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Thursday April 14)
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Good morning, It’s Thursday and time for a potpourri of responses: JOE BIDEN ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO REMAIN REPUBLICANS? Peter Bain comments on party loyalty: “Your friend’s statement about leaving the Republican Party struck a chord for me… Millicent and I were on the Acela from NYC back to Baltimore in November 2019. The primaries were under way, with the customary Democratic free-for-all. Biden’s campaign was widely viewed as dead in the water, and the pundit class had written him off. We looked up from our seats and there he was, in our car, chatting away with folks. We watched as he engaged with just about everybody, but particularly the younger folks. Being me, I of course approached him to have a chat. I told him I appreciated his long career of public service, but that, as a lifelong Republican, I disagreed with a number of his policy positions. I went on to tell him, though, that I was struggling with my party and what I felt it had become and the even more concerning direction in which I saw it heading. I said this assuming that his response would be to describe the “big tent” of the Democratic Party and to encourage me to cross the aisle and join the Democrats.
#325 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Thursday April 14)
#325 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Thursday…
#325 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Thursday April 14)
Good morning, It’s Thursday and time for a potpourri of responses: JOE BIDEN ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO REMAIN REPUBLICANS? Peter Bain comments on party loyalty: “Your friend’s statement about leaving the Republican Party struck a chord for me… Millicent and I were on the Acela from NYC back to Baltimore in November 2019. The primaries were under way, with the customary Democratic free-for-all. Biden’s campaign was widely viewed as dead in the water, and the pundit class had written him off. We looked up from our seats and there he was, in our car, chatting away with folks. We watched as he engaged with just about everybody, but particularly the younger folks. Being me, I of course approached him to have a chat. I told him I appreciated his long career of public service, but that, as a lifelong Republican, I disagreed with a number of his policy positions. I went on to tell him, though, that I was struggling with my party and what I felt it had become and the even more concerning direction in which I saw it heading. I said this assuming that his response would be to describe the “big tent” of the Democratic Party and to encourage me to cross the aisle and join the Democrats.