Debate: Has the Far Left Led the Democratic Party Astray? | Opinion On 12/23/20 at 12:18 PM EST
In the 2020 presidential election, the ever-divisive President Donald Trump over-performed, relative to his 2016 baseline, with both Black and Hispanic voters. While Joe Biden won the presidency in a closer-than-expected contest, Democrats under-performed in both the Senate and House relative to what most prognosticators had predicted prior to the election.
Immediately after the election, moderate and progressive Democrats began trading recriminations. In the eyes of the moderates, Democrats rhetoric about defunding the police and Green New Deal -style massive government programs cost them many winnable races. But, progressives responded, there is little concrete evidence of this, and Clintonian-style centrism is, at this point, an outmoded dinosaur of a previous era. Who is right?