Washington Examiner / Magazine
December 8, 2020 Issue
December 8, 2020 Print Edition
Cover Story
How the Biden coalition could come unglued
Liberals turned out for Joe Biden this year in greater numbers than they did for Hillary Clinton not because, in the words of New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, he is “their favorite person” but in order to have influence in the White House again. “Our first task [is that] we've got to defeat the worst president in modern history in this country, and No. 2, we organize our people to make sure that Biden becomes the most progressive president since FDR,” said Bernie Sanders, the man Biden bested for the Democratic nomination and a top Ocasio-Cortez ally.If personnel is policy, as the saying in Washington goes, the most doctrinaire progressives in the Democratic Party have to be getting a little concerned. While no one would confuse Biden’s incoming administration with President Trump’s, centrist and establishment Democrats have taken the lion’s share of the announced Cabinet and White House staff positions. And while it is still early, the Ocasio-Cortez/Sanders wing of the party has so far been shut out of the major policymaking roles.Justice Democrats, the left-wing group that recruited Ocasio-Cortez to run for Congress in the first place, bought ads in the swing states of Arizona and Pennsylvania urging supporters to hold their noses and vote for Biden. “Look, maybe you don't like the other guy running for president,” a woman says in the spot. “I get it. I don't like anyone right now....

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