A President Biden could go big. Will he be brave enough to be bullish?

Biden won the nomination partly on the perception he would restore normality, but if he wants to succeed as President, he will have to be a norm-busting Democrat.

Despite a slight dip in the polls, Joe Biden — after formally accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination — maintains a healthy lead over his rival Donald Trump, who it set to become his party’s nominee next week. If the election was held today, virtually every single prediction model anticipates a Biden victory.

In seeking to combat this, the Republicans have sought to paint Biden as a “hapless tool of the extreme left”, embracing the metaphor of the trojan horse. Joe Biden might ride into the White House on his brand of authentic and compassionate personal appeal combined with moderate and bipartisan political aspirations, but hidden under the Resolute Desk would be Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Elizabeth Warren all of whom are perfectly set to “abolish the suburbs”.

The fact that the Trump Team are saying this shows that even they do not believe Biden is, himself, a member of the so-called Radical Left. But nor is he a Joe Manchin style Democrat. He sits in the ambiguous centre, almost…