Has the Democratic Party been unfair to Joe Biden?
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
As President Biden spoke at last night’s DNC to endorse Kamala Harris, many are asking if his party treated him fairly. Making people a means to our ends is not limited to political parties. From Cain and Abel to today, it is a symptom of our fallen nature and drive to be our own god. Today’s Daily Article explores this issue in the context of fallen human nature and points the way to relationships built on unconditional love.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. It's Tuesday, August the 20th, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins, |
| 0:08.9 | narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. If Joe Biden wore his |
| 0:17.5 | party's nominee for president this fall, he would be speaking at the Democratic National |
| 0:22.1 | Convention on Thursday. Instead, that honor goes to Vice President Kamala Harris while Mr. Biden |
| 0:28.8 | addressed the gathering last night instead. Frequently interrupted by chance of We Love Joe, |
| 0:35.0 | he pointed to his joint accomplishments with Mrs. Harris as he passed the torch to her. |
| 0:40.1 | Have Democrats been unfair to the president? |
| 0:42.2 | He won his party's nomination through its primary process, then resigned from the race on July the 21st. |
| 0:48.7 | According to Robert Draper's in-depth New York Times profile, he still feels anger and hurt towards party leaders who |
| 0:55.9 | discouraged him from seeking re-election. |
| 0:58.3 | Said negatively, his political ally supported him so long as he was a means to the end of |
| 1:03.9 | keeping the White House, then turned on him when they felt he could no longer serve this purpose. |
| 1:09.7 | Said positively, politicians must be elected if they are to serve. |
| 1:14.4 | If, as Democratic Party leaders believe, their platform best meets the needs of the nation, |
| 1:20.0 | it needs to gain power to do so. |
| 1:22.5 | Running candidates who are most likely to win is a necessary means to this end. |
| 1:27.7 | Lest you think I'm being partisan, the same is true on the Republican side. |
| 1:31.8 | Donald Trump was widely disliked in his party until it became clear that he would win the nomination in 2016. |
| 1:38.8 | Over the year since, many of his political opponents have become his supporters. |
| 1:43.3 | The same positive negative calculus is in play. |
| 1:46.8 | I often cite the work of sociologist James Davison Hunter, whom I consider the leading evangelical |
| 1:52.5 | interpreter of culture today. In his new book, Democracy and Solidarity on the Cultural Roots of |
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