Joe Biden can and does condemn this violence, but it rings hollow with many people, because the Dems made themselves inseparable from [the rage mobs]. I’m not sure how the Democrats can shake the rioters off as a political albatross.He's riffing off a Policy Tensor essay that will also reward careful study.
Note, though, that if Mr Biden becomes president, and if he attempts to unbundle the old Bipartisan Consensus from the rage mob, the rage mob is ready to keep on raging.
That’s why, in recent weeks, the two of us have helped launch a campaign to “#VoteTrumpOut (in Swing States) / Then Challenge Biden from Day OneI don't see in a subsequent sentence any hope that a second term for Our President will mean an end to the temper tantrums. "While a Biden-Harris administration could be pressured toward reforms benefiting poor and working-class people, Trump is immune to progressive pressure and protest." In that sentence, I think "immune" means "will not give in, and his voters will be OK with it." It does not strike me as "if our side loses, we'll go back to our cubicles and think of a new strategy."
An encouraging reality is that the progressive movement is much stronger today—online, in the streets and on election ballots—than four years ago. We’re better organized, better funded, better networked and more astute about the need to challenge corporate Democrats.
Large numbers of progressives are ready, willing and able to battle a Biden-Harris administration on behalf of transformational reforms like a Green New Deal, major criminal justice reform to counter racism and establish true public safety, Medicare for All, affordable housing, free college, increased taxes on corporations and the rich, and big cuts in Pentagon spending.
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