Regarding Nancy Hall’s March 18 letter (“Sanders’ slump was an inside job, as in, inside the Democratic Party”), I couldn’t disagree more. I voted for Elizabeth Warren in our primary, but I’m firmly in the Joe Biden camp now, for two reasons: Although I agree with many of Bernie Sanders’ positions, I question whether he plays well enough with others, as it were. I doubt he could get members of Congress (of either party) to hammer out legislation that will turn his ideas into laws in order to effect the change he promises. What we need now, in my opinion, is an LBJ-style Democrat in the White House who can push, pull, sweet-talk, cajole, threaten—whatever it takes—to get something done. That’s how the Civil Rights Act got done.
Second, I think Biden’s foreign policy experience makes it more likely that he would be able to rebuild the bridges to our allies that Donald Trump has set ablaze. I’m not a member of the Democratic Party “establishment,” as Hall puts it in her letter. I’m just one voter. Like a whole lot of others.
Barbara Donlon
Winchester
