It's effective, but it's doubtful that Biden can maintain that narrative throughout the primary, a narrative, which, as Alexander Burns notes in his professional write-up, "Joe Biden Announces 2020 Run for President," assumes a return to a pre-Trump steady state.
Rather than describe his political record or embrace left-wing policies that some Democrats and liberal activists are hungry for, Mr. Biden made a thematic attempt to define the Democratic primary in terms of a question: which candidate can beat Mr. Trump and restore normalcy.But no such steady state existed. Trump was a reaction to a political system that embraces massive inequality and perpetual warfare.
Make no mistake. Biden will be formidable. I imagine he'll have support of most of the unions. The bonus offered by his entry into the presidential contest is that it will stress the contenders for the mantle of centrism. Hopefully Klobuchar, Harris and Buttigieg will take an immediate hit. Sanders, Gabbard and Warren will be unaffected at the outset because they don't draw their support from the same well.
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