Despite President Biden's recent calls for a 6-week ceasefire amid the war between Israel and Gaza, leading progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders tells "Face the Nation" that "the United States of America cannot be complicit in this mass slaughter of children." "That should be clear: No more money to Netanyahu's war machine to kill Palestinian children," Sanders said.
I wouldn’t agree with this.
In terms of the progressive wing pushing the agenda under Biden, Liz Warren has had far more direct impact.
Warren was rather famously successful in landing allies into key positions in banking, education, and labor regulatory agencies. These are the sort of moves that are less flashy, but have played a large part in why we’ve seen things like debt cancellation pushes and a resurgence in antitrust action since Biden took office.
What you are talking about happened after the election and the point I made was that Biden ran on a lift and shift of progressive policies, specifically, that it wasn’t Bidens policies that got him elected, it was Bernies policies that got Biden elected.
I’m sure the friends Warren keeps are more palatable to Biden then the company Bernie keeps. But if Biden is looking to get elected again, he might reconsider how his bread gets buttered.