The Joe Biden culture war

There’s a split among Democrats on #MeToo and more. Biden might have picked the losing side.

Joe Biden is betting on the past.

The former vice president, who formally announced his candidacy on Thursday but has been a frontrunner in the polls for months, recently called himself an “Obama-Biden Democrat,” evoking a repeat of 2008. His supporters have long held that he can connect with the white working-class voters who switched from Barack Obama to Donald Trump in 2016.

And when he responded, earlier this month, to allegations that he...