Fear has a name in the Democratic Party, and that name is Cornel West.
The former Harvard professor is one of the nation’s most prominent progressive intellectuals, and he’s seeking the Green Party nomination for president.
Although Nader received fewer than 3 million votes — just 2.74% of ballots cast nationwide — the 97,488 he got in Florida was far more than the 537-vote margin by which Gore ultimately lost the state and with it the presidency.Despite its name, the Democratic Party is not very comfortable with democracy.
The Biden and Clinton campaigns both used race against Sanders, insinuating his focus on class was insufficiently anti-racist. Occupy Wall Street protests in the middle of the Obama years sent the signal loud and clear. So did the Bernie insurgencies within the party and the Nader challenge from outside.
The Democrats are in a worse position: They haven’t been able to resolve their class conflicts, and identity politics only papers over the cracks.The result is a schizoid party, radical in its support for transgender ideology and always tempted to defund and demonize police, yet at the same time too timid to satisfy, or even placate, the hard economic left.
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