They lose when they shrink every time a so-called "liberal" news pundit asks the question Republicans are never asked--"How do we pay for it?"
"Not Trump" is not enough if we wish to transform the system that brought us an incompetent proto-fascist like Trump.
That requires broad New Deal-type programs intended to return the Democratic establishment to what it was prior to the 1980s' "Reagan revolution" that decimated the middle class, shuttered manufacturing jobs, and convinced entire swaths of the American electorate to vote against their own interests believing "government is the problem."
Do Democrats really think Republicans are going to surrender their intransigence now, and how much more to the right are Democrats willing to move when they don't?
Although Joe Biden has a neo-liberal past to reckon with, he has no choice but to respond to the times, which means he can-and must-become "the most progressive president since FDR," as Bernie Sanders insisted he has the potential to be.
The question is, will he?
Will we keep the screws to him to make sure he does?
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