Biden national security and foreign policy picks splinter the Left

President-elect Joe Biden and far-left figures in the Democratic coalition aren’t on the same page when it comes to high-level appointments for his incoming administration.

It’s a not-unexpected source of tension. But it largely stayed private after Biden clinched the Democratic nomination against the likes of Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the latter a socialist and avatar of the party’s furthest-left fringes. Biden was President Barack Obama’s vice president for two terms and before that a 36-year Delaware senator, consistently in the middle of the Democratic Party ideologically but hardly a fire-breathing political revolutionary.