The Left wants Joe Biden to govern as if the recent election had gone very differently. The Justice Democrats and other far-left groups are circulating a memo blaming their party’s center for the defeats and insisting on radical change.

They want Biden to treat his nail-biter, no-coattails victory as a mandate to implement unpopular progressive ideas. They want their party to embrace and profit from the “profoundly compelling economic message” of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and to make the linking of “racism and class conflict” a central plank of the party’s platform, supposedly to broaden their appeal to Hispanic voters.