Why Bidenism Failed

Despite lofty ambitions, four years of professional-managerial approaches to governing moved the Democrats even further away from their New Deal roots.

Illustration by Noah Pelletier.

The Democratic establishment’s swift consolidation behind Joe Biden’s presidential candidacy in March 2020 — and against Bernie Sanders’s insurgency — was an impressive show of strength. But the decision to back the seventy-seven-year-old DC insider also reflected fears about the inability of other leading Democrats to reach working-class voters. Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren: all were […]

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