Joe Biden
The Diplomat
People, composure and the difficult conversation held well.
Joe Biden earns The Diplomat designation through five decades of coalition-building as a core leadership method rather than a rhetorical posture. As President he prioritised repairing NATO alliances strained under the prior administration, convening G7 partners and restoring US commitment to the WHO and the Paris Climate Agreement. His Senate career told the same story in domestic terms, defined by cross-aisle dealmaking that treated negotiation as the primary instrument of power.
“I think the Democratic Party could stand a liberal George Wallace, someone who's not afraid to stand up and offend people, someone who wouldn't pander but would say what the American people know in their gut is right.”
“Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point.”
“The standard of judgment is no longer results but the flickering image of seriousness, skillfully crafted to squeeze into 30 seconds on the nightly news. In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.”
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