By Slavoj Zizek
August 02, 2019 "Information
Clearing House" -
Many
so-called Democrat ‘moderates’ would prefer
Donald Trump to retain the US Presidency
than for Bernie Sanders, or another genuine
leftist, to defeat him.
In this sense they are mirror-images of
establishment Republicans, such as George W
Bush and Colin Powell, who publicly
expressed support for Hillary Clinton during
the 2016 contest.
In the course of this week’s heated
Democratic Party primary debate, former
Colorado governor John Hickenlooper warned
that “you might as well FedEx the election
to Donald Trump” if the party adopts radical
platforms. Such as Bernie Sanders’ ‘Medicare
for All’ plan, the Green New Deal and other
game-changing initiatives.
The ensuing passionate exchange clearly
exposed the two camps in the Democratic
Party: the ‘moderates’ (representatives of
the party establishment whose main face is
Joe Biden), and the more progressive
democratic socialists (Bernie Sanders,
perhaps Elizabeth Warren, plus the four
young congresswomen baptized by Trump as the
“Dem Squad”, and whose most popular face is
now Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.)
This struggle is arguably the most important
political battle taking place today anywhere
in the world.
It may appear that the moderates make a
convincing case. After all, are democratic
socialists not simply too radical to win
over the majority of voters? Is the true
struggle not the contest for undecided
moderate voters who will never endorse a
Muslim, like Ilhan Omar who keeps her hair
covered? And did Trump himself not count on
this when he brutally attacked the ‘Squad,’
thereby obliging the entire Democratic party
to show solidarity with the four girls,
elevating them to the status of party
symbols?
For the Democratic Party centrists, the
important thing is to get rid of Trump and
bring back the normal liberal-democratic
hegemony which his election disrupted.
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