She said, “Your debutante just knows what you need, but I know what you want.”
—————-Dylan
The Democrats are a coalition of minorities, the well-educated, young people, and women. In an age of identity politics, is it any surprise that they really want a presidential nominee who looks like them: young; charismatic; black or racially mixed; and female or metrosexual? Someone like Barack Obama?
Biden clearly isn’t any of those things, which is why the party is, in Dylan’s words, “stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again.” In spite of his mostly impressive record, millions of Democratic voters don’t really want him to run again. But Biden is the perfect foil for Trump. As an old white guy with a record of moderation, he can’t be credibly accused of being woke or socialist. No one else in the Democratic party has those advantages.
In the end, it is the view of the Rolling Stones that prevails here. You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need.