When Joe Biden Takes the White House, What’s Next for the Left?
The American left has been transformed over the past four years under President Donald Trump. But the Left will have to organize and fight just as hard under President Joe Biden.
As Joe Biden prepares to take the oath of office on January 20, what are the prospects for the US left in the years ahead? Today’s Left is in a challenging place: strong enough for other forces to care about what it thinks and does, but too weak to shape political outcomes. Biden’s steady stream of conservative cabinet picks are but the latest reminder of this. Recent years have seen impressive campaigns and mobilizations, most notably the 2018–19 teachers’ strikes, the resurgence of Black Lives Matter, and Bernie Sanders’s presidential runs. But the teacher mobilizations have yet to spark…
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