"When the Party of the Left Abandons Its Populist Traditions for High-Minded White-Collar Rectitude, the Road Is Cleared for a Particularly Poisonous Species of Rightwing Demagoguery"

"However, there are consequences when the left party in a two-party system chooses to understand itself in this way. As we have learned from the Democrats' experiment, such a party will show little understanding for the grievances of blue-collar workers, people who–by definition–have not climbed the ladder of meritocracy. And just think of all the shocking data that has flickered across our attention-screens in the last dozen years–how our economy's winnings are hogged by the 1%; how ordinary people can no longer afford new cars; how young people are taking on huge debt burdens right out of college; and a thousand other points of awful. All of these have been direct or indirect products of the political experiment I am describing."

Thomas Frank at The Guardian warns Joe Biden away from returning to Democratic centrism.

And John F. Harris at Politico discusses the stalemate within the Democratic Party.