Defending the status quo suddenly lost a lot of its appeal.
A funny thing happened just as Democratic voters were rejecting Bernie Sanders’ and Elizabeth Warren’s cases for structural change and political revolution in favor of Joe Biden’s reassuring pitch for cautious improvement on the status quo: The status quo got extremely bad.
It did so, too, in a way that reminds everyone that things were also quite bad not too long ago, after the 2007–08 financial meltdown. In a nice symmetry, that disaster was predominately the private sector’s fault, while this time, the blame lies mostly withof government that weren’t prepared, willing, or able to execute their most basic responsibilities.
This reality challenges the premises of the pitch that Biden and Hillary Clinton have made, successfully, to their party’s voters. While Democrats almost all agree that the country’s unequal and unfair distribution of nearly everything is bad in the abstract, the Biden-Clinton premise has been that “normal” is good enough for enough people, and Sanders-style reform so risky, that the best choice is to change one thing at a time, here and there, modestly. But a “normal” that involves once-a-decade Great Depressionsthe widening inequality, mass shootings, and indefinite wars that we’re accustomed to starts to seem less appealing.
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