Rather than arguing over which candidate has the better chance to beat Trump, Democrats can unite behind a joint ticket. OPINION
That statement will frustrate believers in the urgency of liberal democracy in the United States. Surely, the ongoing tragedy of Donald Trump’s presidency tells us otherwise.
Uniting factions To do so, the Democrats must be the country’s majority party, united across factions to defend its namesake from an existential threat. And, today, it is in perilous danger of doing just the opposite. The Bernie-Biden divide Sanders is most popular with more-radical nonwhite political elites and advocates for systemic social and economic change. Biden is most popular, still, among less-radical nonwhite voters and pushes a more moderate “return to normalcy” message.
As a result, this divided party is indeed the most immediate threat to the American democratic experiment. Prominent Bernie supporter and leftist superstar Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has already laid the groundwork for this political constellation, probably unintentionally. Ocasio-Cortez claimed that in another country — say, one governed by a parliamentary system — she and Biden would be in different political parties. That’s true! And that’s also the point.
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