There is, however, an available arena where West could still provide useful pressure by laying out the left alternative to Bidenism: the Democratic primaries. On the debate stage, at campaign rallies, and in national media coverage, West, with his prophetic voice and moral clarity—like Sanders in 2016 and 2020—could accomplish a great deal.
D.D. Guttenplan is editor of The Nation.
Bhaskar Sunkara is the president of The Nation.
As if there will be debates, LOL
Providing a “left counter” to Biden that will eventually bow out and endorse him, where have I heard that before?
At least 2016 and 2020 actually felt like they might be a moment, Bernie was filling stadiums and shit.
2015 was crazy, happened to be in Boston on a weekend when Bernie was in town. 20K people showed up. Then after Trump, and with COVID, and how fucking lost Biden was… 2020 looked pretty good.
It’s wild to think how much differently so much shit could have gone. Obviously Sanders would’ve been pretty knee-capped by Congress, but honestly people like(d) Bernie. He was coming on a little strong to some people, the “revolution” talk was very silly, but there was really nothing impugning his motives… He just presents as a grumpy grandpa who’s got about as good politics as you could hope for from someone his age in the US, and must know something to have gotten those ideas into national level electoral politics in this country.
got about as good politics as you could hope for from someone his age in the US
My neighbors are Marxist Leninists in their 90s
Bhaskar Sunkara is the president of The Nation
Well it worked well enough for him last time
Any chance they ditch Kamala? Her likelihood of becoming president because Biden croaks might not be as high as she is, but it’s definitely non-zero. Albeit it wasn’t the first time around, but that was a slim fucking margin as well… Obviously I want it because it’ll be funny. There’s no way they can hide her as much as they do now, I want to see her in action. Even if they hide her as much as Biden, she’s still going to have to interact with foreign officials and kids and “small businesses” where not everything can be scripted
Who knows? DC is impenetrable these days. We’ve resorted to kremlinology, analyzing who’s standing next to whom to try and puzzle out who’s really in charge.
There is, however, an available arena where West could still provide useful pressure by laying out the left alternative to Bidenism: the Democratic primaries. On the debate stage, at campaign rallies, and in national media coverage, West, with his prophetic voice and moral clarity—like Sanders in 2016 and 2020—could accomplish a great deal.
D.D. Guttenplan is editor of The Nation.
Man I could be editor of a magazine too then huh?
