… When it comes to elections—and the politics of the nation as a whole—there is, of course, a center.
Look at polling. Look at the “progressive” ideas discussed or supported by Biden—from protecting the climate to providing child care, from better health care to fairer taxation, from gun control to voting rights, from a woman’s right to choose to education reform—they are all supported by a substantial majority of Americans.
Biden is not advancing a “left” agenda, he is fighting for a majoritarian agenda, for goals sought by the vast majority of us that would, in turn, benefit the vast majority of us. But the grim reality is that D.C. is a donut. There is no “center” in Washington politics. …
The problem is that D.C. politics are increasingly unresponsive to the majority of Americans. CONTINUED
David Rothkopf (Rothkopf Group), Daily Beast
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