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President Joe Biden\u00a0can ill afford a long, hot summer of protest that comes to a boil in time for the Democratic National Convention in August and then bleeds into the final weeks of an already venomous clash with\u00a0Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After days of\u00a0college campus demonstrations\u00a0\u2014 triggered by outrage at the civilian carnage from Israel\u2019s war in Gaza \u2014 the president\u2019s reticence to throw himself into the politics of a perilous situation finally became unsustainable, resulting in\u00a0his first on-camera comments\u00a0on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nationwide campus protests are not as pervasive as mass civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests that raged in the 1960s and 1970s. And this year\u2019s fervor may cool when finals are over and students head home. But in stepping to the White House podium, Biden assumed a role adopted by many of his predecessors at moments of high tension. He tried to remind the nation of its core principles and the citizenry of their duty to uphold them to ensure that both the right to free expression and the rule of law prevail. He argued that just as people have the right to protest government policies, others have the right to get a degree on campus in safety and not to be racially slandered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI understand people have strong feelings and deep convictions,\u201d Biden said. \u201cIn America, we respect the right and protect the right for them to express that. But it doesn\u2019t mean anything goes. It needs to be done without violence, without destruction, without hate, and within the law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden\u2019s political isolation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In a political sense, Biden\u2019s speech was an act of fence sitting. He needs to avoid further alienating young, progressive voters who are furious about his handling of the Gaza war and could doom his reelection hopes if they don\u2019t show up in November. But he must also ensure that more middle-of-the-road voters aren\u2019t convinced by Trump\u2019s claims the country is on fire and spinning out of control. Any time a sitting president looks like he\u2019s observing rather than controlling inflammatory events, he\u2019s taking a huge political risk. This is especially the case when a political opponent, in this case Trump, is lambasting him as weak and not up to the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Traub, a columnist for Foreign Policy and the author of a new book about Hubert Humphrey, said Biden faced a similar dilemma as the former vice president who was the Democratic nominee in 1968 amid the domestic angst caused by the Vietnam War. Biden \u201chas such a narrow path to tread that I think he said the right thing and did as well as he could do,\u201d Traub told Isa Soares on CNN International on Thursday. Traub argued that Biden could lose \u201cwhatever connection he has to the energy and idealism of young people\u201d if he criticizes the protesters but could alienate more moderate voters if he validates them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden\u2019s optics problem may be exacerbated by his own lack of engagement in the Vietnam-era activist movement. He told reporters in 1987 that \u201cby the time the war movement was at its peak, I was married, I was in law school, I wore sports coats.\u201d It\u2019s hard to believe now, but America\u2019s oldest president was once of the youngest senators in US history. But he was not a natural protester. His way was always to seek change through establishment politics and legislating. He\u2019s got more kinship with the labor movement than the protest movement. According to the late columnist Mary McGrory, who was at the 1987 news conference, Biden said: \u201cYou\u2019re looking at a middle class guy, I am who I am. I\u2019m not big on flak jackets and tie-dye shirts \u2014 you know, that\u2019s not me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That same conventionality was evident in Biden\u2019s remarks decades later in Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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