The Future of the Semi-Victorious Democratic Party
Joe Biden squeaked past Donald Trump, but the Democratic Party has floundered its way through another election yet still refuses to look at itself in the mirror.
Joe Biden squeaked past Donald Trump, but the Democratic Party has floundered its way through another election yet still refuses to look at itself in the mirror.
The chaos of this year’s election may well be enough to dispel all remaining illusions about American democracy.
As the Republican convention stokes fear of a communist takeover by Joseph Stalin (aka Joe Biden), the Democratic standard-bearer has promised to keep things fundamentally the same.
Cultures need symbols, but US culture tends to deprive its symbols of life by exploiting them too literally.
The New York Times continues to misread history as it hesitates between supporting democratic principles and backing the principal but not necessarily the principled Democrat (Joe Biden).
When the only thing a party stands for is getting elected, the instinct for suppression of reflection and debate takes over.
The Democratic Party struggles to defend its extreme commitment to plutocracy from the moderating influence of progressives.
Despite everything going wrong this week for the party regulars, establishment Democrats are now trying to regroup.
The Iowa caucuses have now confirmed that the Democratic Party had rebranded itself as the party tragically allergic to reality.
Who should Democrats vote for in the presidential primaries: a moderate or an extremist? Moderation, of course, is in the eye of the beholder.
Unless he is impeached, Donald Trump will continue to define the essence of today’s Republican Party, but who will define the Democrats’ essence?
