Opinion: Is Joe Biden worth it?
By Elizabeth Bruenig Elizabeth Bruenig Opinion columnist focusing on politics, religion and morality in public life. Email Bio Follow Opinion columnist April 3 at 4:17 PM Long before the likelihood that Joe Biden would enter the 2020 Democratic primaries became so high that his name began to be included on rosters of front-runners, people on the left worried that his history of being overly affectionate with female acquaintances would pose a problem.
As The Post’s Molly Roberts points out, the fact that Biden never really had to consider how his behavior was received before now is a hallmark of power, and one of many complaints the #MeToo movement has advanced about how women are expected to engage in the world. How Biden responds to these women’s experiences is a problem for him — and his potential campaign, which Biden says is still “full steam ahead” — to deal with.
If we are indeed to press ahead with Biden, the first challenge for liberal-minded people involves making distinctions — the essence of philosophy, as Robert Sokolowski once observed, which is to say: no small thing. Since the rise of the #MeToo movement — and even well before — the question of how to take women’s accounts has roiled the left, with opinion generally gravitating toward a habit of affirming their own subjective experiences. Biden’s supporters will have a very hard time adhering to that norm.
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