Maybe this is just me, but in the past two decades in which I’ve been politically active, and in what I’ve studied of the past, I have never seen anyone ever support a strategy of trying to move already-elected politicians further left.
If anything, the discourse is usually about how presidents look more conservative than they are because conservatives have had control of Congress for all but a few months of the past 40 years.
Biden ended up being further left than I thought he would be, but I don’t remember anyone suggesting pre-election that he could be pushed further left.
Biden was arguably pushed further left by Bernie Sanders negotiating with him 1-on-1 to incorporate progressive policies into his platform and to get some of his progressive members into key positions of power (mostly committee chair positions). Still that was post-Primaries and pre-election to my knowledge.
Maybe this is just me, but in the past two decades in which I’ve been politically active, and in what I’ve studied of the past, I have never seen anyone ever support a strategy of trying to move already-elected politicians further left.
If anything, the discourse is usually about how presidents look more conservative than they are because conservatives have had control of Congress for all but a few months of the past 40 years.
Biden ended up being further left than I thought he would be, but I don’t remember anyone suggesting pre-election that he could be pushed further left.
There were tons of people on Twitter saying that.
Biden was arguably pushed further left by Bernie Sanders negotiating with him 1-on-1 to incorporate progressive policies into his platform and to get some of his progressive members into key positions of power (mostly committee chair positions). Still that was post-Primaries and pre-election to my knowledge.