//Can Joe Biden avoid Obama’s mistakes? He must – for the future of the party | David Sirota

Can Joe Biden avoid Obama’s mistakes? He must – for the future of the party | David Sirota

Democrats must act to ward off the electoral rise of rightwing extremism by delivering gains for the working class

In the final scene of the film The Candidate, the newly elected Democratic Senator Bill McKay asks a harrowing question amid his victory celebration: “What do we do now?”

Democrats in 2020 have won a similar presidential victory – and under eerily similar circumstances as the movie depicted. The national campaign was primarily a referendum on the incumbent Donald Trump, with Democrat Joe Biden mostly offering vague promises of a better way – and so the same question is now upon us.

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