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Donorocracy—and the Two Questions that Capitalists Ask
Why Democrats refuse to win with popular programs like M4A, a high minimum wage, and free higher education
Conservative Democrats can never admit this: Bernie Sanders would have defeated Trump in 2016 and in 2020, not because Americans love cranky old Jews, but because his platform is so popular with the working class. Most Americans want
- A higher minimum wage — 62% of Americans support raising it to $15 an hour
- Medicare For All—62% of Americans Agree US Government Should Ensure Everyone Has Health Coverage
- Free higher education — 63% favor making tuition at public colleges free
Yet Kamala Harris stopped supporting Medicare For All, began talking about eliminating degree requirements instead of making degrees available to everyone, and did not come out for raising the minimum wage until the end of October—and then she only supported raising it to the amount Sanders supported a decade ago, rather than $20 or $25, the amount it would be today if the federal minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity.
If you think Democrats want to win, Harris's choices are baffling. Instead of running as a Sanders democrat, she ran as a Cheney Republican for a…
