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Put Progressives in Charge of the Democratic Party
Hear me out.
The liberal progressive wing of the Democratic Party has been waiting in the wings long enough.
At this moment, the progressive movement has the transformational ideas, the enthusiasm, the grass-roots support, the digital campaign savvy, the cohesiveness of values, and the momentum to do much more than just wrest the White House away from Donald Trump.
Moderate Democrats do not.
Liberal progressives, together with the full cooperation of the Democratic Party, could easily oust Trump. They could also advance the kind of progressive liberal agenda that could radically alter people’s lives for the better.
The campaign of Joe Biden on the other hand, ever limping along, continues to be unimpressive; when it’s not outright embarrassing. It is also so far behind the digital campaign of Donald Trump, a cadre of tech billionaires in Silicon Valley are even now stepping in to help Biden close the gap.
In the next six months, these well-meaning progressives in tech will try to compete with the digital campaign mastery, data capturing technology, and online platform that has taken the Trump campaign four years to build from the ground up.