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Biden, reassuringly unradical with his plain, avuncular demeanor, is bidding to create a new common sense rooted in political lessons that Democrats have learned the hard way.

Pete Buttigieg, despite his unradical, centrist policies and general air of clean-shirtedness, draws out the youth.

A review of Mr. Biden’s conduct in the debate — including interviews with 16 people directly involved in the nomination fight, and a review of the hearings and Mr. Biden’s speeches — yielded a portrait of Mr. Biden as an ambitious young senator determined to achieve a vital liberal goal by decidedly unradical means.

All it takes is a group of persistent activists and a few bold lawmakers to make the unthinkable thinkable, the radical unradical.

Sondheim’s songs manage to be radical while seeming entirely unradical.