Biden Today? Progressives Tomorrow?

We’re getting close to the primaries now. In a few months, we may even have a clear idea of who the Democrat’s candidate will be. I hope it is someone we can get behind. But I do worry. What if we want as progressives is not what the voters want?

I keep flashing back to an article in the Washington Post way back in July of last year, “Dear Democrats: I’ll vote for any of you. But please nominate someone who can actually win” by Megan McArdle. In it, she appeals to the Democrats to pick someone who can woo Moderates and even conservatives in particularly contested races. Or, to put it another way, I suppose she’s basically saying Vote For Biden.

Is she right? Should we do that? I honestly don’t know. Personally, I kind of think that Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren could pull it off.

Yet...yet...I do worry.

Could it be that we need to have a Biden in 2020, so that we can get a Progressive in 2024?

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Michael Jay Tucker is a writer and journalist who has published material on topics ranging from the Jazz Age to computers. (Among his small claims to fame is that he interviewed Steve Jobs just after that talented if complicated man got kicked out of Apple, and just before the company’s Board came begging him to come back.)



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