Biden’s Weak Stance on Rioters.

Biden’s Weak Stance on Rioters. By JIM GERAGHTY

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/bidens-weak-stance-on-rioters/

Excerpt: A lot of Trump fans will answer “yes,” even though it’s not a terribly plausible argument. A more plausible one is that Joe Biden looks like an almost-78-year-old lifelong politician who is trying to manage a party of disparate interest groups in which 26 percent voted for self-described socialist Bernie Sanders this past year and 50 percent view socialism positively, and who leads the party that almost universally runs America’s largest cities — metropolises that are full of elected officials who may not have a “soft spot” for rioters, but who have repeatedly demonstrated a stubborn refusal to take the steps necessary to stop them. That assessment doesn’t really roll off the tongue, but it has the advantage of being true. Biden may not see himself as a socialist, but you can’t begrudge Americans for being wary of deploying a congenial Washington backroom back-slapper as their backstop against socialism. Biden may not be pro-riot, but that doesn’t mean he’ll be head and shoulders more effective in stopping them than the four horsemen of America’s urban apocalypse: Portland mayor Ted Wheeler, Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan, Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot, or New York City mayor Bill de Blasio. And Biden certainly has no interest in any public scrutiny of the performance of those four mayors, or the state of urban governance during a nationwide spike in homicides and shootings.