Democratic Party

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• SOURCE: Business Insider
  7/2/2020
  

  Democrats May Beat Trump in November and Still not Learn the Most Important Lesson from his Presidency

  by Daniel Bessner

  Democrats must not just defeat Trump; they must commit to fighting a culture of elite impunity that has enabled the rise of Trump and an unaccountable Republican Party. 

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  5/25/2020
  

  Is This the Blueprint for Sanders and AOC to Take Over the Democratic Party?

  by Jonathan Chait

  Jonathan Chait is skeptical of John Nichols's new book, which argues that the Democratic Party's present struggles stem from the decision in 1944 to remove progressive VP Henry Wallace from the ticket in favor of moderate Harry Truman. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/13/2020
  

  Democrats’ Covid-19 Relief Plan Shows Charges of Socialism have Lost their Bite

  by Merlin Chowkwanyun

  McCarthyism's residual effects are on display any time an ambitious domestic policy proposal is denounced as “socialist.”

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• 4/30/2020
  

  What's Next for Presumptive Dem Nominee Joe Biden?

  by HNN Staff

  Joe Biden's campaign has been overshadowed by the COVID-19 crisis, but his choice of a VP, his policy advisers, and sexual assault allegations have put him in the news. 

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• SOURCE: Harvard Law Today
  4/28/2020
  

  If Democrats Win in November, Should they Pack the Supreme Court?

  Harvard Law School Professor Mark Tushnet discusses his research on FDR’s 1937 attempt to pack the Court, and the prospects for increasing the number of justices.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  4/26/2020
  

  Why Americans Don’t Vote Their Class Anymore

  Eric Levitz argues that the left can't expect to build class solidarity just because candidates like Bernie Sanders talk about it; the institutions that have historically allowed it to develop are gone. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  4/27/2020
  

  Larry Summers Is a Dead Albatross Around Biden’s Neck

  Larry Summers's history as an advocate of neoliberal economic policy makes his relationship to the Biden campaign troubling for progressive Democrats. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  4/27/2020
  

  Responses to an ‘Open Letter to the New New Left’

  The Nation publishes two critical responses to the recent "Open Letter to the New New Left," which criticized a perceived unwillingness by young leftists to unite around Joe Biden's candidacy to defeat Donald Trump. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  4/17/2020
  

  Did Gender Keep Democratic Women From Winning The Presidential Primary?

  Gender was definitely a factor in this year's Democratic primaries. How could it not be after what the party has seen over the past four years? But the ways in which attitudes about gender impacted the outcome are varied and, of course, more than a bit complicated.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  4/14/2020
  

  Bernie Offered Us the Future. Why did He Fail—and What did We Forfeit?

  by Moshik Temkin

  Because his support is so concentrated among the young, and because the problems he vowed to fight will only get worse whether Trump or Biden wins, this movement is only likely to grow, and its next leaders might eventually succeed where he failed.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  4/7/2020
  

  When Centrists Sounded Like Bernie

  by Ed Burmila

  If today’s centrist, establishment Democrats are unwilling to hear warnings coming from the left, perhaps they will heed their own advice from an earlier era.

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• SOURCE: National Catholic Reporter
  4/6/2020
  

  Time For The Dems To Earn The Hatred Of The Wealthy And Connected

  Democrats might want to make copies of the president's signing statement and mail it to all Americans, highlighting the passages where the president insists there will be no oversight.

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• 3/27/2020
  

  A Word to My Fellow Progressives: Lessons of the 2020 Democratic Primary

  by Andrew Meyer

  This year feels to many progressives like a lost opportunity. With Joseph Biden seemingly certain to win the Democratic nomiatuion, what can progressives learn and apply to the future from the experience of 2020?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/18/2020
  

  Campaign Signals Sanders May Be Open To Exit

  New signs emerged of communication between the two camps as some Democrats hoped for a swift end to a bruising primary.

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• SOURCE: GEN
  3/18/2020
  

  The Generational Dispute Over the ‘Safe’ Choice for President

  by David Walsh

  Millennials and Generation Z may have more in common with their grandparents and great-grandparents than their parents.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/16/2020
  

  Pete Buttigieg’s Coded Language Shows the Limits and Promise of LGBTQ Progress

  by Nathaniel Frank

  Research shows that it’s not just political candidates who continue to feel they have to hide their true selves to reach their full potential, as even the openly gay presidential candidate apparently did.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/14/2020
  

  Why Sanders Isn’t Winning Over Black Voters

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  For millions, even when government “works” it is not working for them.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/16/2020
  

  Did America Misjudge Bernie Sanders? Or Did He Misjudge America?

  by Robert Draper

  Throughout his insurgent campaign, he remained steadfast in his radical vision—and forced a reckoning for the Democratic Party.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/15/2020
  

  Winners and Losers from the Bernie Sanders-Joe Biden Debate

  Biden drove home the point that he would be a steady, pragmatic hand at an uncertain time.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  

  Bye Bye Bernie

  According to our experts, Bernie Sanders may not have won the debate, or the 2020 Democratic primary. But he changed his party, and Joe Biden, for the better.