Analysis: Is the former vice president a far-seeing progressive or a centrist creep? He’s both, and he’s only going to win in 2020 if he figures out how to explain that conundrum
Secretary of State George Shultz about Reagan’s passive approach to ending apartheid in South Africa. After noting the administration’s policy not to have “favorites” in South African politics, Biden exploded: “Dammit! We have favorites in South Africa. The favorites in South Africa are the people who are being repressed by that ugly white regime.” A month later, the Senate passed a bill applying economic sanctions on South Africa, and Congress would override Reagan’s veto of it.
One line on Biden’s resume often attributed to political calculation is the Violence Against Women Act, because it was passed two years after millions of women were disgusted by the Senate Judiciary Committee’s treatment of Anita Hill , in her recent case against Biden, characterized VAWA as “a form of repentance for Biden’s horrifying failures regarding Anita Hill’s testimony.”
Biden’s bill didn’t get a floor vote before the Anita Hill hearings, or soon after. Nor was the bill an easy sell. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, whose nomination Biden led the opposition for, returned the favor by encouraging opposition to the bill’s classification of domestic violence as a federal civil rights violation.
However, understanding the chronology helps clarify that Biden’s handling of the Anita Hill hearing wasn’t driven by clueless, retrograde sexism; he had been working on related issues for years. It was driven, he has said, by the primacy he placed on being a neutral and impartial committee chair.
The Anita Hill hearings brought all these facets of Biden into conflict. And yes, Hill wrongly suffered because of how Biden chose to balance them. But those same instincts led to the bipartisan compromise for the 1994 crime bill, which, for all its tough-on-crime excess, also included $30 billion for programs designed to keep people out of jail, on top of the Violence Against Women Act.
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