One of Joe Biden’s quirks is that he thinks nobody notices when he changes. He’s had two hair-plug operations and an eye job, but nobody ever talks about it so he thinks nobody noticed. Now that he’s running for president as the only Democrat in the field who voted for the war in Iraq, he’s trying to convince us he’s undergone a progressiveness transplant.
Last night in New York City, at event honoring young people who helped combat sexual assault on college campuses, he called on Americans to “change the culture” that allows violence against women. “It’s an English jurisprudential culture, a white man’s culture. It’s got to change,” he said. He also said he regrets that “I couldn’t come up with a way to give [Anita Hill] the kind of hearing she deserved.”
The event, held at the Russian Tea Room, was hosted by the Biden Foundation and the not-for-profit group It’s on Us, which Biden founded with Barack Obama in 2014.
You’ll notice that this support of women comes within Biden’s tough-on-crime framework, which also produced the omnibus crime bill that gave the U.S. the highest per-capita prison population in the world. If you look closely, you’ll find that underneath its apparently monochromatic coat even a black leopard has spots.