Joe Biden Won’t Provide Serious Coronavirus Relief Without Being Forced by the Left
Joe Biden didn’t campaign on significant coronavirus relief measures despite the incredible pain felt across the country right now. It’s up to the Left to demand he pursue such measures in office, centered on three issues: addressing economic misery, expanding health care, and paying for it all by taxing the rich.
The only counterbalance to Biden’s inevitable rightward lean will be popular mobilization. (Manny Becerra / Unsplash)
When news outlets announced last weekend Joe Biden’s insurmountable lead in the Electoral College, much of the world responded with jubilation. But Biden, an avowed centrist, is not about to enact sweeping social reforms, or concede much of anything to the Left.
With the possibility of a Democratic majority in the senate hinging on runoff elections in Georgia, the Senate may end up Republican-controlled, which would further pull Biden to the right. Not that he needs much pulling, given his career as one of the key figures in the Democratic Party’s rightward turn.
The only counterbalance to Biden’s inevitable rightward lean will be popular mobilization. But you can’t organize and mobilize around abstract calls to “push Biden left” — the Left needs a concrete agenda.
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