Joe Biden has had a hard time to capture the minds of progressive Democrats. Like the media, progressive
Democrats tend to see him as a centrist – a status quo candidate who
just wants to return the US and the world to the pre-Trump era.
Even
Biden’s collaborations with Bernie Sanders, including the recently
announced unity taskforces,
are often dismissed as pure window-dressing. But this kind of blithe
dismissal of the presumptive Democratic nominee misreads both the
politician and the times.
It is true that Biden
was never a very progressive Democrat, but neither was he a
particularly conservative one. He has been a classic “centrist
Democrat”. But it’s important to note that this places him not in the
political center of the US electorate, but in the center of the
Democratic party – a party that has shifted left significantly since
2016, as has Biden.
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The fight is on for progressives to push Biden to the left. They might just win | Joe Biden | The Guardian
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