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I don& #39;t think it& #39;s possible but hypothetically let& #39;s say Joe Biden is the new president come next January. Let& #39;s even say he manages to carry the Senate, which is an outrageous long shot but let& #39;s roll with it.
What will happen next is that all the people telling you we can& #39;t pursue a progressive agenda because We Must Unite To Defeat Trump will seamlessly pivot to telling you we can& #39;t pursue a progressive agenda because doing so would Risk Our Majorities.
Then when the party gets blown out in 2022 because the Biden administration has done nothing to make anybody& #39;s lives better, those same people will pivot again to tell you that we can& #39;t pursue a progressive agenda because we have to Hold On To The White House.
This cycle will repeat until Republicans win the White House again, at which point we won& #39;t be able to pursue a progressive agenda because We Must Unite To Defeat Anthropomorphic Coronavirus or whatever nightmare emerges from the GOP next.
I don& #39;t blame voters, many of whom have been bombarded nonstop for decades by leaders of both parties with the message that anything to the left of Ronald Reagan is a sure loser and you should just forget about it. It& #39;s the people spreading that message who are to blame.
(and most of the media, sorry I shouldn& #39;t have left them out)
Yes it is true that the Democratic Party will never cede anything to the left without a credible threat of losing the left’s political support. However, [insert upcoming election here] is The Most Important Election In History, so this is no time for doing politics.
