Vox: Andrew Yang said the smartest thing about Biden at the DNC
Andrew Yang made a point that I have argued on this board in the past. If you ask people who are the most progressive Presidents in modern times, most folks will point to FDR and Lyndon Johnson. However, as a member of the Roosevelt family, FDR was is a classic example of the Democratic establishment. Likewise, Lyndon Johnson was a white Southerner from Texas who progressives opposed adding to the JFK ticket. Yet, both were able to help pass ambitious progressive legislation, because what they proposed became the new reasonable. After all, if Lyndon Johnson was going to get behind the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, then that could not be too revolutionary.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/8/20/21394924/dnc-joe-biden-andrew-yang-magic
“The magic of Joe Biden is that everything he does becomes the new reasonable,” Yang said during a roundtable discussion among former 2020 contenders. “If he comes with an ambitious template to address climate change, all of a sudden, everyone is going to follow his lead.”
During the Democratic primary, Biden was often described as the half-measures moderate in the field. But if you look beyond political labels to the meat of the policy Biden is proposing, his agenda is shockingly ambitious.
He’s proposing a significant expansion of government health care that includes a public option and has floated a climate plan that would decarbonize the US economy by 2035. Waleed Shahid, the communications director for Justice Democrats, told Vox that Biden’s policy slate is “the most progressive platform of any Democratic nominee in the modern history of the party.”
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He meant it, and it pushed cautious methodical Barack Obama forward.
For both of them, my 
and bring in lots more downticket races for Senate, House, governors, state legislatures, etc.
But first we have absolutely destroy Trump so badly the GOP never nominates such a toxic POS ever again.
