Exclusive: Top House Democrat Unveils Plan to Beat Back Progressive Rebellion

[ancianita]

115. Nope. I'll assume you used all caps for EMphasis and not yelling.

We saw these headlines on DU after Biden won enough delegates for the party nomination convention. That was in June. In July, he and Sanders put together a task force to develop the party platform.

https://www.vox.com/21317850/joe-biden-bernie-sanders-task-forces-progressive-agenda

While the Biden and Sanders teams may have started out in more agreement on climate, there was a clearly differing view on health care, with Sanders supporters in favor of Medicare-for-all and Biden’s campaign favoring a public option. And on issues like this — and criminal justice — the campaign didn’t move as far left.

“Though we have disagreements, I believe we’ve come together with something that reflects the average of where we stand and allows us to fight for a health care policy that would extend health care for millions of people,” said Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a single-payer advocate who was a Sanders pick for the health care task force.

“I feel they made a constructive contribution to that end,” said Chris Jennings, who was a health care policy adviser during the Obama administration and was a Biden pick for the health care task force. “I do believe the outcome is a stronger product and a more unified party.”

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/08/889189235/democratic-task-forces-deliver-biden-a-blueprint-for-a-progressive-presidency

"I commend the Task Forces for their service and helping build a bold, transformative platform for our party and for our country," Biden said in a statement on Wednesday. "And I am deeply grateful to Senator Sanders for working together to unite our party, and deliver real, lasting change for generations to come...

The task force also called on Biden to pursue requiring employers to offer employees the option to sign up for government-administered health care, rather than company plans.

Jayapal thinks the report can help sell onetime Sanders-backers on Biden.

"I feel like I can go and legitimately sell this as something that the movement achieved, something that we were able to do that pushed Vice President Biden further than he has been and solidified the need for universal, high-quality, low-cost coverage for everybody provided through public providers, not private insurance companies," she said...

Sanders hopes this document will get more progressives excited about the goals, not just the existence, of a Biden administration. "When I talked to Joe a while back, he said that he wants to be the most progressive president since FDR," Sanders said. "Do I believe that Biden believes that now is the time for bold action to protect the working class and lower-income people in this country? Yes, I do believe that's the case."

Note that nowhere in media did the word populism come up. It did come up in media about Trump, though.

These statements from Biden, Sanders, and their people do not show populism, which tends toward rule of men and grievance campaigning. That's what Trump did.

I remember the outcome of the Biden and Sanders' campaigns as moving toward unity, not uniformity, and in no way coming out of populism. And you'd be more credible about calling me "WRONG" if you were to include linked proof.