“I’m running as a proud Democrat, but I’m going to be an American president,” Joe Biden said in his recent town hall appearance on ABC. “I’m going to take care of those that voted against me as well as those who voted for me, for real. That’s what presidents do. We’ve got to heal this nation because we have the greatest opportunity of any country in the world to own the 21st century. And we can’t do it divided.”

This posture betrays the double-faced nature of Biden’s candidacy. He is attempting to speak to two different constituencies that want opposite things and to satisfy both.