The Danger in White Moderates Setting Biden’s Agenda

With at most a narrow majority in the Senate, the new president will be inclined to do less. He must be pushed to do more.

By Tressie McMillan Cottom (2020 MacArthur Genius Grant recipient) Dr. Cottom is a writer and sociologist. Nov. 7, 2020

The full contours of the postelection landscape are, as yet, unknown, but we’ve learned many important lessons already. Chief among them is that white Republicans will vote party over every other economic and social issue and that this will make it nearly impossible to govern.

To start, a Biden administration with the will to govern must first display the will to call to account the egregious lawlessness of its predecessor. A true accounting would look like a swift, transparent punishment of those who looted the public trust, including Donald Trump. Read HERE.

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