Culture Wars/Current Controversies

‘Do You Remember the Ecstasy of Electing Joe Biden?’ by Jonathan Chait

By on • ( Leave a comment )
If you are a reader of political news, then you are familiar with what has become a tired genre: the earnest op-ed arguing that voters of conscience need to remain outraged at Donald Trump’s inescapable presence in American life and steadfast in opposing his return to the White House. Yet as these well-meaning editorials mount, they have started to reek a little of wishful thinking, masking the sour realization, evident in all the polls, that the anti-Trump energy that fueled Joe Biden’s election in 2020 is spent. In a sweeping survey of the challenges Democrats face in the 2024 election, New York‘s Jonathan Chait explains how the anti-Trump coalition fell apart, urging Democratic leaders and voters alike to squarely face the unthinkable: that this specific coalition isn’t coming back together anytime soon.

—Ryu Spaeth, features editor, New York

Do You Remember the Ecstasy of Electing Joe Biden? How the coalition that defeated Donald Trump crumbled.

Photo: Hugo Yu
Read the full story
Enjoying One Great Story?
Subscribe now for unlimited access to everything New York.

More From Today
New York’s Brock Colyar speaks to Max Wolf Friedlich, the playwright behind the 2020 “period piece” Job, about making tech-bro-friendly “theater for the boys.”
READ MORE »
Maybe your teen doesn’t need a mental-health day. On the Cut, Anya Kamenetz argues that letting kids stay home from school can actually be really bad for them.
READ MORE »
Why do so many Republican governors oppose feeding hungry children? Intelligencer’s Sarah Jones unpacks how American kids become casualties in an old right-wing campaign to keep the poor in their place.
READ MORE »
From small-ear-appropriate earbuds to a cashmere beanie for winter weather, Jessica Chastain tells the Strategist’s Rachael Griffiths what she can’t live without. 
READ MORE »
On Curbed, Adriane Quinlan speaks to the listers of “the sweetest little house on the most expensive street in the West Village,” which they originally bought 1976. 
READ MORE »
Introducing The City Desk, a weekly newsletter about New York. Sign up to get it every Thursday.
Get The Newsletter

Categories: Culture Wars/Current Controversies, Electoralism/Democratism

Leave a Reply