After handily winning a primary packed with 20-odd people by refusing to embark on their race to the Left, Joe Biden is changing his tune. With the Democratic nominee’s most obvious selling point, personal decency and respect for decorum, imperiled by a credible sexual assault allegation, Biden now seems more desperate than ever to cater to the party’s far Left base.

Most noteworthy is the appointment of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as co-chairwoman of his climate change panel. During the primary, Biden’s initial climate proposal stood out from the rest precisely because it avoided the radical redistributionism of Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal.” Biden backed both an increase in nuclear research and production and using trade negotiations to cajole China, the world’s worst producer of greenhouse gases, into combating its own emissions.