If the political revolution is dead, nothing is possible?
Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images On days like this, it is hard not to feel that the arc of history bends toward nothing grander than the Sun swallowing the Earth.
Biden may comfort older Democrats with promises to restore an imagined past. But the younger voters who have overwhelmingly backed Bernie Sanders demand a road map to a better future. And the one they thought they had now lies in tatters. All of this came after the left’s champion, Cynthia Nixon, lost New York’s gubernatorial primary to Cuomo in a rout.
Progressives and socialists would be wise to build their own independent institutions and cultivate their own mass base of support. But they should also recognize that they do, in fact, have a profound stake in seeing Joe Biden prevail over Donald Trump this November. For low-income people in Louisiana and Kentucky, the stakes of elections between moderate Democrats and far-right Republicans can be life and death. There is no party in U.S.
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