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    Can Joe Biden avoid Obama's mistakes? He must – for the future of the party | David Sirota

    Democrats must act to ward off the electoral rise of rightwing extremism by delivering gains for the working class
    by David Sirota Nov 10, 2020 4 minutes
    Joe Biden. ‘The onus is on progressive activists, advocacy groups and lawmakers to resist the urge to repeat 2009’s deference to a new president. Demands must be made.’ Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/AP

    In the final scene of the film The Candidate, the newly elected Democratic Senator Bill McKay asks a harrowing question amid his victory celebration: “What do we do now?”

    Democrats in 2020 have won a similar presidential victory – and under eerily similar circumstances as the movie depicted. The national campaign was primarily a referendum on the incumbent Donald Trump, with Democrat Joe Biden mostly offering vague promises of a better way – and so the same question is now upon us.

    To answer it, you must first appreciate how we arrived at this moment of peril. In this week’s election, Trump kept the race close by winning who listed the economy as their top concern, according to exit polls. He was able to

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