Joe Biden Goes Left — Or Does He?

Confronting “woke” illiberalism in the post-Trump era

Cathy Young
Arc Digital
Published in
12 min readFeb 15, 2021

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Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden in the White House, February 11, 2021 (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty)

The Trump presidency is over. Democrats control the White House and both houses of Congress. Faithful Democrats and devout progressives have reason to be jubilant (even if the latter may find Joe Biden too moderate). It’s far more complicated for those of us — independents, moderate Republicans, even centrist…

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Cathy Young
Arc Digital

Russian-Jewish-American writer. Associate editor, Arc Digital; contributor, Reason, Newsday, The Forward etc. https://www.patreon.com/CathyYoung