Sailing Between Scylla & Charybdis: A Call to the Left To Reject Neoliberalism
In
National Policy
By
Evan Doerr
Most recently with the 2020 election, many leftists and progressives who disliked the Democratic Party begrudgingly voted for moderate Joe Biden to defeat Trump, a much more dangerous national populist. This article argues that the Left must abstain from voting in "lesser of two evil" scenarios for three main reasons. This opinion piece discusses how electing neoliberals contributes to an undoing of the political goals of the Left & consents to their nullification, how neoliberal politics cause the cyclic rise of national populism, and how national populists often reorganize and rebuild the Left.