"This Is the Heavy Undertow That Churns Beneath the Apparent Rising Tide of the American Left"

"This fundamental shift—from the party of Humphrey to the party of Schumer—remains the most important American political development that confronts the Left today. It is no accident that the decline of class voting has corresponded with fifty years of retreat for American workers: stagnant wages, accumulating debt, and increasing precarity, even as corporate profits have soared. Nor is it a coincidence that even popular two-term Democratic presidents in this era, elected by such dealigned class coalitions, have proven unable or unwilling to push for structural reforms on anything like the scale of the New Deal era, even after facing the biggest economic crash since the Great Depression."

Matt Karp at Jacobin contrasts Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.