FactualWhile the first voters must choose, Monday, February 3, in Iowa, the candidate most likely to win the presidential election, the party hesitates between a moderate line and a more radical socialism.
On February 3, Kevin Cavallin, who lives in Iowa, will be among the first Democrats to vote in the nomination contest for the presidential election of 2020. No doubt his training as an engineer in molecular biology, she explains. his ability to sum up in a clear and concise manner the dilemmas that this long process of selection of the candidate, who will be opposed, in November, to Donald Trump, is supposed to solve. "I'm still not sure who I'm going to support, he admitted in the middle of January. I lean towards Joe Biden or Pete Buttigieg (representatives of the centrist current), but I didn't rule out Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders ", Figures of the Democratic left wing.
"I like Warren and Sanders, but what bothers me is that their programs are so progressive that they will cost the party of independent and moderate voters. I like what they have to say, but our nation runs the risk of a dangerously unstable child president winning a second term, " he continued. "I know his trial for removal from the Senate will fail and will only serve to motivate his supporters to vote en masse. That’s why the stakes are higher this year than in the last election. Trump has a good chance of winning, and nothing bothers me more than the thought of a second term. "concluded Kevin Cavallin, who works at Iowa State University in Ames, north of Iowa's capital Des Moines.
This hesitation on the line to adopt is a legacy of the brutal defeat of 2016, which left Democratic voters in a state of post-traumatic quasi-stress, long unable to formulate an analysis of the victory of Trumpism. One of the first was by idea historian Mark Lilla, professor of literature at Columbia University in New York, in a short essay published in 2017, which deepened a column in the New york times two weeks after the rout.
In this incisive work, The Once and Future Liberal. After Identity Politics (Harper, published by Stock, in 2018, under the title The Identity Left. America in pieces), Mark Lilla was carrying out the harsh trial of an American left who would have abandoned the social struggle, defeated by reaganism, to take refuge in a culture of identities. "The left no longer seeks to mobilize the working class around economic issues, preferring to fight for a cultural reform led by qualified elites, he explained, in 2018, in an interview with World. It has two objectives in mind: to bring Americans to be more tolerant and to place marginalized groups at the heart of the national narrative. These two projects have been very successful. But the price paid was high. " According to Mark Lilla, the two Democratic presidents elected during this so-called "abdication" period, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, were able to transcend this culture, unlike Hillary Clinton.
