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"IT'S GOING TO BE A GUERRILLA WAR": THE SANDERS LEFT OPENS FIRE ON BIDEN
Within a few hours of Joe Biden’s official presidential announcement, the Justice Democrats, the progressive group behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s rise to power, brought out the flamethrower. “The old guard of the Democratic Party failed to stop Trump, and they can’t be counted on to lead the fight against his divide-and-conquer politics today,” began executive director Alexandra Rojas, accusing Biden of standing “in near complete opposition to where the center of energy is in the Democratic Party today.”
Incredibly, the rebuke from Justice Democrats was among the more anodyne responses on the far left, where Biden—Amtrak Joe, defender of the middle class, Scranton native son—is being treated like Darth Vader. Or, worse, the second coming of Hillary Clinton. “If you hear from a candidate that we’re just going to go back to 2016, it’s not satisfying,” one progressive grassroots organizer told me.
The left’s animosity toward Biden derives in part from a feeling that the Democratic Party is at a crossroads, that the answer to Donald Trump isn’t a restoration of the old order but a brash, new, left-wing politics. In fact, about half of registered Democrats identify as moderate or conservative, suggesting that Biden, far from being out of step with the party’s base, is actually its best representative.
But groups like Justice Democrats, the Working Families Party, Data for Progress, and others, are hoping to seize the moment to change the conversation, either by supporting candidates like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, or pushing the centrists further to the left. Hence the all-out, shock-and-awe style blitzkrieg.
“Whoever you will support, if it is not Biden, Biden is an existential threat to your candidate. So you have to **** him up, and he’s just the most vulnerable to attack for the most ****** stuff, ” said progressive activist Sean McElwee, a co-founder of Data for Progress. “It’s going to be a guerrilla war of placing the shittiest issues and getting the oppo out there.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/04/progressives-attack-joe-biden-2020