President Biden has an odd habit.
He likes to relate to his audience, but that’s a common trait among politicians. What’s strange about Biden’s folksy “charm” is that he seems to appropriate the experiences of whatever demographic his audience is that day.
If we listen to Biden, he’s a devout Irish Catholic who’s also Jewish and went to synagogue, who’s also Greek, who sometimes wished he were Polish, who was raised by Puerto Ricans and also the black community. He’s also a former truck driver who was part of the civil rights movement, was offered a Naval Academy football sponsorship, was arrested in South Africa with Nelson Mandela, and whose dad was cool with gay men kissing in public in 1950s Scranton.
It’s all very well for a politician to get folksy with his audience, but Biden goes beyond that. He sometimes crosses the line into fiction. His ever-growing collection of anecdotes about his apparently incredibly varied life experiences seem to contradict…
