Opinion: Joe Biden preaches political civility—yet the left says he’s soft on segregation
Joe Biden isn’t a conservative but he’s learning what it feels like to be one. On Tuesday night at a fundraiser in Manhattan he made comments that no reasonable person would interpret as racially insensitive—and was immediately censured by his Democratic competitors as though he had defended Jim Crow.
Mr. Biden recalled working as a young Democratic Senator with James Eastland and Herman Talmadge , both segregationists and unrepentant critics of the civil-rights movement. Mr. Biden’s point was that...
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