Excellent review of Obama's book by @ryanlcooper. There's something however that I don't think progressives are willing to countenance. And that is Obama's Democratic Party simply may not include a faction that seeks to decentralize economic power. https://theweek.com/articles/950908/obama-pretender

Most of the critique from progressives of Democrats is that Dems aren't successful at winning elections or gaining political power, and that if they did what progressives sought, they would be. But aside from untrue, isn't that besides the point?

Obama's political legacy is a Democratic party with moderate upper class Bush Republican, Ivy League social liberals, and older black voters, financed by Wall Street/Silicon Valley. There are no progressives in there, or perhaps that's just where progressives are.

As followers know, I am open-minded about Joe Biden. I want to see what he does, and whether the Dem establishment has learned anything. But my big mistake was in assuming that Kamala/Buttigieg were out of step with Dems. It turns out, they are right in step with them.

I don't know what to do if Joe Biden really does run a third Obama term policy wise. Are progressives anything but a lifestyle brand? I haven't seen it.

The most likely realignment threat if Biden doesn't govern well is not that a Republican wins, it's that the U.S. loses a war to China and we are massively impoverished. That's where we're heading. I don't see any clear thinking about this reality.

No. In five years, China grabs Taiwan, cuts off U.S. semiconductor supply and possibly many other critical inputs. U.S. economy blows up, we become beggars to China and the CCP sets harsh terms. https://twitter.com/jberganimator/status/1331252019101904897

The left is too addled and racist to realize that the Chinese government can actually displace the U.S. and what that would mean, the right is too corrupt to do anything about it.