Hello, I'm Nathan Robinson, the editor of Current Affairs magazine, and today I'm going to be reading to you my article, Democrats, you really do not want to nominate Joe Biden in current affairs.

Subtitle, we urgently need to remember who Biden is and think carefully about what would happen if he were chosen.

If you're a Democrat, you may be thinking about the presidential primary, something like this.

Joe Biden doesn't seem like a bad guy. It was a good vice president under Obama, and he's

certainly better than the monster we have in the White House right now. Biden might not be our

perfect candidate, but who is? Right now, the race is between Biden and Bernie Sanders, and

I agree with Bernie on a lot of things, but he wants to

shake up the whole party and push a radical agenda that Americans aren't ready for.

Biden is clearly the safe bet, and it's time to get serious about beating Donald Trump.

The Super Tuesday showed that Democratic voters want someone stable and experienced.

They don't want to throw out the establishment.

Bernie would be a reckless choice.

Biden is likable.

He's pragmatic.

We need someone who can end the craziness of the Trump era and return us to a time

when things were at least relatively sane.

I wish Barack Obama could run again, but he can't and Joe is the closest thing we've got.

I doubt he'll be a historically great president, but he won't be an awful one either,

and I think he's an empathetic and well-meaning guy.

Okay, so if that captures your thinking, I would like you to now give me a chance to show

that this argument for Biden, which is very common

and very tempting, is ultimately wrong in a very dangerous way.

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