Answer: Yes, it could. Follow along with me here:
It’s September of 2020. Bernie Sanders is the Democratic nominee for President, having been anointed on Wednesday, July 15 in Milwaukee, two months prior. At that point, the landscape for November has completely changed (I think a lot of people have not yet considered the face of the electorate in a post-Bernie environment). A hugely enthusiastic progressive movement becomes the engine for the Party. Chris Coons goes on Morning Joe and (presumably) dutifully says: “I will support the nominee of the Democratic Party”. Or, he doesn’t. Or he says he’s focused on his race, you know, he barely has time to even think of the Presidential contest.
Meanwhile, AOC and progressive stalwarts come to Delaware to campaign on behalf of a true progressive D candidate for the Senate and a raft of rising progressive challengers throughout the state.
Meanwhilemeanwhile, a disheartened group of corporadems do, what exactly? Show up at photo ops with Chris holding giant checks? That’s about the best they can do.
My point being, the Democratic Party would now be in the hands of motivated and mobilized progressives. Ironically, what I mean by ‘progressive’ is a return to what the vision of the Democratic Party was during the New Deal era–a Party that genuinely looks out for those who are most at risk and those who need a hand up. That’s not radical at all. It’s just a rejection of the Corporate Democratic Party that made a mockery of what the Party stood for. The corporadems have always relied on a discouraged or uninterested party electorate. Ain’t enough bank executives and their, wait for it–ilk, to outvote a motivated Party base. Especially not with progressive challengers going after insiders in primaries in D strongholds.
I haven’t even mentioned Jess Scarane’s name in the body of this piece yet. But she’s down-to-earth, has a great vision, one which is largely in concert with Bernie’s vision for America, and she will have been working for close to a year on her campaign by the time Delaware’s Sept. 15 primary rolls around.
Which side will be more motivated to vote on that date? An enthusiastic grassroots, or the dutiful corporadems? BTW, there’s more of us than there are of them.
If you side with the enthusiastic grassroots, you can help by contributing to Jess’ campaign. No, she won’t come close to matching Coons’ blood money, but she doesn’t need to. She can win by building that grassroots machine one voter at a time.
Yep. This could happen, all right!