It’s difficult to hide these days. Time was when a politician could tell two different audiences two different things and get away with it. Now, we live in split screen.
During the recent presidential election, we were treated to a startling illustration of this each time then-candidate Joe Biden told the country he was a moderate, only to be corrected by friendly pundits and devout advocates who, unlike him, seemed to have read his platform. In essence, the year 2020 brought us two candidacies: On the right side of the screen, there was Joe Biden, who talked of decency, unity, moderation, and normalcy; on the left, there were his party and its vanguard, who talked of renaissance and reconstruction. From the start, the two were at odds. Only time could tell which would prevail.
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