If he wants to win in November — and would like the Democratic Party to thrive thereafter — Uncle Joe will need to negotiate a truce with Bernie’s immoderate rebels
The times, they aren’t a’changing . Photo: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images Over the course of the 2020 primary race, Bernie Sanders and his sympathizers have derided Joe Biden as a warmonger, ally to segregationists, nepotist, and corporate shill whose “broken brain” was sure to cost Democrats the 2020 election.
Some in Biden’s camp may see little need to make accommodations to the Bernard brethren. After all, the former vice president is already running well to the left of both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. His campaign platform features a $1.7 trillion climate plan, $15 minimum wage, deportation moratorium, strong public option for health insurance, and a robust package of pro-worker labor-law reforms.
Ultimately though, winning over young Sanders supporters may be less important for prevailing in November than it is for fortifying the Democratic coalition in the years and decades to come. The millennial and zoomer generations aren’t just more progressive – and less partisan – than their predecessors.
All of which makes Biden a dangerous nominee for the long-term health of the Democratic Party. But here we are. There are some young voters that Uncle Joe is never going to be able to reach. But he has a responsibility to do everything he can to make as many as possible feel represented by his campaign.
Other overwhelmingly popular items on Sanders’s agenda include: Requiring large corporations to put workers on their corporate boards; capping credit card interest rates at 15 percent; imposing a wealth tax on the fortunes of billionaires; and making public colleges and universities tuition-free. .
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