The anti-Trump coalition is forming. The left and right must join.

[Zorro]

INSISTING THAT the highest priority is defeating President Trump, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) endorsed former vice president Joe Biden on Monday, followed by former president Barack Obama and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) later in the week. The left and the center-left are coalescing. Now it is the turn of those further right who understand the threat Mr. Trump poses to join an ideologically broad anti-Trump coalition, which will require them, too, to suppress their quotidian ideological disputes with Mr. Biden.

This is not to say that Mr. Biden and his new surrogates have suddenly solved the Democrats’ progressive-establishment divide. “I don’t endorse Joe Biden,” Briahna Joy Gray, Mr. Sanders’s former national press secretary, tweeted Monday, demanding that Mr. Biden make big concessions to the left. Yet if Mr. Sanders’s supporters accept what he says about the threat Mr. Trump poses, they should be working to shore up the left wing of the anti-Trump coalition. Democratic voters chose Mr. Biden’s coalition-building strategy rather than Mr. Sanders’s ideological stridency. Everyone who understands the Trump threat must try to make the strategy work.

In his endorsement, Mr. Sanders stressed that he and Mr. Biden share concerns about wealth inequality, the minimum wage, climate change, health-care access and much else. Mr. Sanders will have to repeat his positive case for Mr. Biden, as well as his negative case against Mr. Trump, often in the coming months, underscoring that progressives can make real gains if they work with Mr. Biden.

While Mr. Biden will likely make additional overtures to his left flank, perhaps in the party platform, he should avoid shifting much further left to adopt the Sanders program, which has now failed twice in the Democratic primaries. He should leave space on his right for patriotic Republicans and right-leaning independents to join his camp.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-anti-trump-coalition-is-forming-the-left-and-right-must-join/2020/04/15/a692d904-7e0b-11ea-8013-1b6da0e4a2b7_story.html

[Girard442]

1. Ummmm... If you're looking for a centrist, moderate, party -- That's Democrats.

If you're a center-right non-Trumpie, then get a lot of what you want by voting Democratic. If you're a rightwinger non-Trumpie, there are so few of you, it's not worth our time.

[stopdiggin]

2. dead on opinion

in all likelihood, successive administrations will be completely focused on rebuilding (and mitigating?) the wreckage.

Obama sought mightily to represent all of America. Biden will try just as hard to follow that lead. We have had quite enough of the "thumb to the eye" style of governance .. thank you very much.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. If Gray et al want to see Biden integrate Sanders agenda, they need to get behind & push from within

Pushing from outside is opposing.

Opposing Biden is supporting tRump.