There’s life in the rickety, old Democratic Party structure after all, writes sullydish
Party guy. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images It may be fleeting but I sensed a small, distinctive undercurrent of normalcy this week in our political system. A long-weakened party, faced with an insistent and ascendant insurgency from its populist wing, actually gathered itself together and acted in collective self-defense. What the Republicans were incapable of doing in 2016, the Democrats are attempting in 2020.
In fact, presented with a choice between an intersectional revolution against “white supremacy” or a doddering but familiar face promising mild reform, African-American Democratic voters emphatically chose the latter. Joe Biden — that mass-incarcerating friend of actual white supremacists in the Senate — won 63 percent of the black vote in Virginia, 72 percent in Alabama, and 60 percent in Texas.
The same could be said for Elizabeth Warren’s cringe-inducing campaign, in which she veered left not just on economics but on culture, celebrating transgender children, lamenting the patriarchy’s relentless grip, pledging to end systemic racism, and so on. In debate after debate she deployed feminist identity politics to portray herself as the candidate of women. For upper-middle-class, left feminists, she was the dream candidate.
In North Carolina, a state that, like Virginia, will figure significantly in November, the numbers were pretty much identical to VA: 13 percent of voters were under 30, down from 16 percent four years ago, and Sanders took 57 percent of them, down from 69 percent. In Alabama, only seven percent of voters were between 17 and 29, compared to 14 percent in 2016. In Tennessee, just 11 percent were under 30, down from 15 percent four years earlier.
I kind of knew this in my head, but it was somewhat startling to see in pixel form that up to 675,000 Americans died in a short period of time, in a population of around 103 million. Did that flu have a much higher mortality rate? Alarmingly, no. The rate was somewhere around 2 to 3 percent, about the same as the one coming soon to an ATM machine near you.
It’s eerily quiet now, outside the financial markets, and I’ve gotten a few funny looks when I wear my face mask in the airport. But it feels to me like one of those long, silent, calming scenes in the opening of a horror movie. I have shitty lungs, a long history of asthma, bronchitis, and pneumonia, and a somewhat compromised immune system, so perhaps I’m a little bit more jittery than is reasonable.
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