Until Donald Trump's legal team can produce convincing evidence before a judge to justify flipping the election results, it is reasonable to presume that Joe Biden is the new president to predict the future direction of American politics. of. Professor Shen Rongqin's Facebook post on November 3 aimed at the changes in the ethnic composition of the future population of the United States, the continuous advancement of urbanization, the gradual decline in the number of devout believers, the increasing education level of the population, the left-leaning of the young generation, and the technology practitioners in large coastal cities.
These socioeconomic trends point to the fact that in the long run, Democrats will be more likely than Republicans to gain new photo background removing supporters and win elections. This reasoning is logically sound, but in the short term, it misses an important link: the Democratic Party must have a candidate who truly represents the progressives and makes a proposition that can truly reverse the long-term deterioration of inequality in the United States economically. Otherwise, they will be pushed to the left by Republicans or Trump’s followers on issues of identity such as ethnicity and gender, and they will lose the main battlefield, and will not be able to benefit from the long-term social and economic development trends that are beneficial to the Democratic Party.
Unfortunately, it seems that the candidate Biden, who will enter the White House on January 20, 2021, is not a progressive who can propose a new economic vision, but a Democratic centrist supported by Wall Street and Silicon Valley technology giants. . This article will first briefly describe why Trump fell below the public eye in 2016, first defeating the Republican establishment, and then defeating the Democratic centrist candidate Hillary Clinton, who has little difference in economic policy from the Republican Party, and effectively The economic and social policies of the Democratic Party have expanded the voter base, and pointed out that on economic issues,