Do you want America to be transformed? If, like me, you’d welcome (among other things) more public politeness, less disingenuous political debate, and an end to the slander that this country is systemically racist, then perhaps you’ll answer “yes.” But I bet you agree that those would be restorations, not innovations, a revival of lost qualities that made America more admirable decades ago than it is now.
That’s not what Joe Biden has in mind when he promises to “transform” this great nation as president. He’s thinking, if the rusty turning of his mental cogs can be described thus, about transformation along lines proposed by the Left. He won the Democratic primary as a centrist alternative to the whackos onstage with him, but then tacked sharply toward them to scoop up Bernie Sanders’s socialist supporters. Now, he’s confirmed that new direction — also that he’ll follow rather than lead his base — by picking Kamala Harris as his running mate.
