The cliché maintains that campaigns should be studies “in contrasts.” This year’s presidential campaign, however, is more likely to hinge on the narcissism of small differences. The distinctions Joe Biden’s camp seems set on drawing with Donald Trump are of the finest sort, and the presumptive Republican nominee appears content to play the incumbent president’s game on his terms.
In a thuddingly unimaginative display on Tuesday, Biden sought to distinguish his approach to the forthcoming crisis posed by the imminent insolvency of America’s entitlement programs from Trump’s. “This man has no idea what he’s talking about,” Biden said of his opponent’s position on reforming programs like Social Security and Medicare. “And over my dead body will we cut Social Security so we can give tax breaks to the super wealthy.”
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