Joe Biden isn’t all bad. Neither is Donald Trump.

From the way I’ve usually (but not always) written about each of them, it might be thought that neither the Democratic nor the Republican presidential nominee has any redeeming virtues. That, of course, would not be a fair assessment, even if their vices are plentiful. Please allow, therefore, this recapitulation, from the standpoint of a Madisonian-Reaganite conservative, of Biden’s strengths as he seeks the presidency and of Trump’s strengths as he seeks to retain it.