I\u2019ve seen a few Democrats on me on social media saying they thought Joe Biden\u2019s performance with the auto workers the other day it was a good episode, and a sign of strength.<\/p>
I was truly, truly not convinced. <\/p>
I think I <\/a>\ufffc<\/a>have really, really good reason not to be:<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n If Biden now has a reputation as a champion of gun confiscation \u2014 and if construction workers in Michigan are asking him about it, it suggests he does \u2014 he is going to have a hard time winning back the voters that Trump peeled away from the Obama coalition. Barack Obama didn\u2019t say much about guns at all until his second term had begun, and, once he did, he presided over the loss of the Senate, the loss of the White House, and a record-breaking period of civilian firearms sales. Judging by their rhetoric, Democrats seem to believe that the center of gravity has changed on this question since then. But the evidence for this is scant. The State of Virginia is run solely by Democrats \u2014 Democrats who were bankrolled by Michael Bloomberg and who promised to pass restrictive gun control as their first priority. They failed, and sparked a massive backlash in the process. Do we think the playing field looks different in Michigan? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n In a way, Biden\u2018s outburst serves as a Rorschach blob; Democrats see a Trump like outburst a candidly unguarded rhetoric; conservative to see a working stiff cornering a candidate with wildly contradictory messages on the issue, and the candidate flailing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m going to stick with \u201cflailing\u201c. I\u2019ve seen a few Democrats on me on social media saying they thought Joe Biden\u2019s performance with the auto workers the other day it was a good episode, and a sign of strength. I was truly, truly not convinced. I think I \ufffchave really, really good reason not to be: If Biden now has a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-20","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73553,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73550\/revisions\/73553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}