What Happened to Joe Biden?

David Brooks: “Many people thought he was a moderate incrementalist, but now he’s promoting whopping big legislative packages that make many on the progressive left extremely happy.”

“I asked him that when I spoke on the phone with him this week. The answer seems to be — it’s complicated.”

“The values that drive him have been utterly consistent over the decades, and the policies he is proposing now are similar to those he’s been championing for decades.”

“It’s the scale that is gigantically different. It’s as if a company that was making pleasure boats started turning out ocean liners. And that’s because Biden believes that in a post-Trump world we’re fighting not just to preserve the middle class, but to survive as the leading nation of the earth.”