Heading into the election, many people were saying that Joe Biden made a deal with Bernie Sanders that allowed him to win the nomination in exchange for adopting Sanders’ platform. This would explain Biden’s embrace of things like the “Green New Deal,” and support from Sanders acolytes like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and “The Squad.” I think we’re now discovering that the deal wasn’t with Sanders. It was the entirety of Washington D.C. Beating President Trump was the most important thing to D.C. denizens, and they’ve been singularly focused on it for four years. What people didn’t notice is to what…

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