Opinion: Biden’s revival of this Democratic tradition needs a 21st century update

There was good reason for Democrats to cheer President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. The president embraced the kind of economic populism that Democrats have traditionally championed and provided a welcome antidote to the cultural red meat that the GOP likes to throw at working and middle class America as a way to soft-pedal the fact that their supply-side economic agenda actually tends to disproportionately benefit higher income Americans.

There was good reason for Democrats to cheer President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. The president embraced the kind of economic populism that Democrats have traditionally championed and provided a welcome antidote to the cultural red meat that the GOP likes to throw at working and middle class America as a way to soft-pedal the fact that their supply-side economic agenda actually tends to disproportionately benefit higher income Americans.