Donald Trump has bent the Republican Party to his will, and is trying to do the same with democracy and reality itself. Can the Biden-Harris ticket stop him?
on defense contractors and billionaires. His signature accomplishments — like slashing corporate tax rates or appointing more than 200 mostly right-wing federal judges to the bench — were made possible by establishment cronies such as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. And yet Trump says with a straight face that he has “ended the rule of the failed political class.” In a lifetime filled with lies and fraud, Trump’s 2020 pitch may be his most audacious con yet.
In the face of Trump’s strategy of activating his most loyal voters, Biden is appealing to a much larger audience and trying to give the impression of a big-tent Democratic Party that welcomes disillusioned Trump voters and independents into the fold. At the Democratic National Convention, an anti-union, anti-abortion former Republican governor in John Kasich spoke alongside a Democratic socialist and liberal celebrity in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The risk Biden faces with his big-tent approach is that he turns off progressives, young people, and African Americans, who want more than lip service to big structural change and feel-good appeals to restoring the soul of a country that never did well by them in the first place. This summer, I caught up with Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher, who worked on Obama’s two campaigns.
In Pennsylvania, the Democratic Party stands its best chance in a decade to regain control of both chambers of the state Legislature, which has activists and donors energized in a way that should lift Biden’s candidacy, says Joe Corrigan, a Democratic consultant in Philadelphia. “The real theme here is that Democrats are coming out in a way that we haven’t done in the past as a party,” he says. “It doesn’t matter if the person is a good Democrat or a middling Democrat.
Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, speaks with CJ Brown, son of Clement Brown, left, owner of a local clothing store in Detroit, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020.Watching that spectacle, I thought of something Rush Limbaugh, long the voice of red America, had said on his show in 2009. Limbaughto his listeners that they and their opponents on the left “live in two universes.” One, he said, “is an entire lie.
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