{"id":344,"date":"2020-09-16T11:45:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T16:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/?p=344"},"modified":"2020-09-16T11:45:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T16:45:48","slug":"biden-a-crypto-progressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2020\/09\/16\/biden-a-crypto-progressive\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden  a crypto-progressive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2020\/09\/joe-biden-sean-mcelwee-and-future-progressive-power\/616213\/\">Joe Biden, Sean McElwee, and the Future of Progressive Power &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In fact, given his good standing among moderates and his relationship with parts of the labor movement, a President Biden might be able to implement progressive policies in a way that doesn\u2019t alienate centrists or make himself especially vulnerable to Republican attacks. He may actually be uniquely suited for passing progressive policies. During the Democratic National Convention in mid-August, Sanders trumpeted a list of progressive priorities that Biden\u2019s campaign has committed to advancing, including a $15 an hour minimum wage and paid family leave. \u201cBiden really could be a crypto-progressive president,\u201d Julian Noisecat, the vice president of policy and strategy at Data for Progress, told me. (The Trump campaign has suggested something similar, warning repeatedly during the Republican National Convention that Biden would be a \u201cTrojan horse\u201d for radical-left ideas.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden, Sean McElwee, and the Future of Progressive Power &#8211; The Atlantic In fact, given his good standing among moderates and his relationship with parts of the labor movement, a President Biden might be able to implement progressive policies in a way that doesn\u2019t alienate centrists or make himself especially vulnerable to Republican attacks. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}