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I think you can have a justice system that is about holding dangerous people away from society and hopefully rehabilitating and treating some of them. Or I think you can have a torture barn. And I think as long as you insist on the torture barn, you can’t have the first.
![bernie v chotiner: "> Every time he was attacking Donald Trump’s record, he would just pause. I mean, the idea that this candidate, who’s going to be eighty-two this year, is going to—
May I?
> Yeah, please.
I’m not aware that anyone thinks that Joe Biden is the best candidate in the history of the world, or that he’s an ideal candidate, and nobody will argue with you that he has a . . . [trails off] He admitted it. Sometimes he gets confused about names. You’re right—sometimes he doesn’t put three sentences together. It is true. But the reality of the moment is, in my view, he is the best candidate the Democrats have for a variety of reasons, and trying, in an unprecedented way, to take him off the ticket would do a lot more harm than good.
> And then there’s this substantive question about whether he can be President for four more years. You have no concerns about that?
Look, I have concerns about everything, you know? And everybody should have concerns about everything. As a nation, we do a very poor job, both in Congress and in the media, of focussing on issues that impact the working class. So I would much prefer to have somebody who can’t put three sentences together who is setting forth an agenda that speaks to the needs of working-class people: raising the minimum wage, making it easier for workers to join unions, dealing with the existential threat of climate change, protecting women’s reproductive rights, building millions of units of affordable housing—
>Right, but you have to get elected for all these things to happen.
All right, but I am saying that the American people are not stupid and they"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kd7pdhsemwqjfacvexf5mglg/bafkreidnoglqxhp7tzkdliacyuvzctmvg2fvsgig7vgxasbyh3bu5hfgxa)
