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There's a split in the Democratic Party. Progressives are surging with ideas and candidates like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 72 percent of Democratic voters are progressives. But centrists like Tom Perez and the Clintons still run the DNC party apparatus—and they don't want to compromise. Intraparty warfare exploded into the open in 2016. It's even bigger now.
The struggle goes back decades, to the New Left and the election of Richard Nixon over George McGovern. It continued with the Democratic establishment's quashing of insurgent progressives like Jesse Jackson, Ralph Nader and Howard Dean. The vast scale of the DNC's secret conspiracy to stop Bernie Sanders in 2016 nomination came out courtesy of WikiLeaks.
Will Democrats again become the party of the working person? Or will the corporatists win and continue their domination of electoral politics? Ted Rall gets to the bottom of the story neither the Democrats nor the Republicans want you to know: how the civil war in the Democratic Party poses an existential threat to the two-party system.
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- ISBN: 9781609809959
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- English
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June 1, 2020
Prolific cartoonist Rall (How Trump Stole 2020) opens this passionate argument that the democratic establishment works to undermine progressive causes in June 2016, with the release of 20,000 emails exposing the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) bias toward Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders. After explaining various DNC attempts to undermine the Sanders campaign, Rall details the history of progressive U.S. politics, beginning with Socialist Party presidential candidate Eugene Debbs in 1912 and surveying the failed presidential runs of Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson, Howard Dean, and Ralph Nader. Rall lays out specific progressive policy and argues that most Americans actually agree with these ideas but reject candidates from outside the norm owing to the educational system and media propagating the idea that only traditional candidates from within the establishment could ever hope to win an election. Finally, he touches on policies enacted by the Trump administration--including the response to the Coronavirus pandemic--and concludes that, "the fight for the soul of the Democratic party may well wind up determining the fate of humanity." VERDICT Rall combines prose, photographs, and single-panel political cartoons in this carefully researched, fervent plea for a reorganization of the current political system.
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