So, the joint Biden/Sanders livestream was interesting, if a bit awkward. They structured it as a sort of Q&A, each getting to ask the other how to address a given issue. But the thing that struck me most is that Biden now is talking about institutional and structural change, and how the coronavirus crisis is revealing to more eyes our pre-existing institutional and structural problems—and is offering an opportunity to address them the way previous crises in American history have offered such an opportunity. (He literally later specifically cited Roosevelt, and seeking to be the most progressive administration since his.) Biden is saying these things now. Biden. The interesting way he put it, though, is how the people we institutionally and structurally ignore are the very people who right now are keeping the country alive, which is what they do every day even without the crisis. If he can keep up that framing—that the coronavirus crisis (like Trump himself) is revealing existing institutional and structural faultlines, and that we can treat the crisis as a wake-up call—that’s nothing but good for Democrats.
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