[rad-green] Robert Reich: As Democratic establishment coalesces around Biden, 2020 primary starting to look a lot Like 2016.

*https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/03/04/if-you-understand-how-trump-defeated-clinton-four-years-ago-do-you-really-vote-joe
<https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/03/04/if-you-understand-how-trump-defeated-clinton-four-years-ago-do-you-really-vote-joe>RobertReich.org
        March 4, 2020If You Understand How Trump Defeated Clinton Four
Years Ago, Do You Really Vote for Joe Biden?*


*As Democratic establishment coalesces around Biden, 2020 primary starting
to look a lot Like 2016.by Robert Reich*

[image: Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and
former Vice President Joe Biden speak during the third Democratic primary
debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season at Texas Southern
University in Houston, Texas on September 12, 2019. (Photo: Robyn
Beck/AFP/Getty Images)]

*Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former
Vice President Joe Biden speak during the third Democratic primary debate
of the 2020 presidential campaign season at Texas Southern University in
Houston, Texas on September 12, 2019. (Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)*

As the Democratic Party's "moderate" (or shall we say "establishment") wing
coalesces around Joe Biden to stop Bernie, the primary contest is starting
to look a lot like 2016, when the same wing rallied around Hillary Clinton.

Today, Mike Bloomberg quit the race and endorsed Biden—as has Amy Klobuchar
and Pete Buttigieg. As the *New York Times'* David Leonhardt put it, "if
you're a Democrat who doesn't want Bernie Sanders to be the party's
nominee, your choice is now clear: you should vote for Joe Biden."

But suppose you're a Democrat who doesn't want Donald Trump to have a
second term? Suppose you're a Democrat who suspects that Trump got elected
in the first place because he exploited a deep sense of betrayal felt by
tens of millions of Americans whose wages haven't budged in 40 years and
who know the system is rigged for the benefit of those at the top? Do you
really vote for Joe Biden?
<https://www.commondreams.org/author/robert-reich>

Robert Reich <http://www.commondreams.org/author/robert-reich>, is the
Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California,
Berkeley, and a senior fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies.
He served as secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, for which
Time magazine named him one of the 10 most effective cabinet secretaries of
the the twentieth century. He has written fiften books, including the
best-sellers *Aftershock <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307476332>*, *The
Work of Nations <https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679736158>*, *Beyond Outrage
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345804376>* and, *Saving Capitalism*
<https://www.amazon.com/Saving-Capitalism-Many-Not-Few/dp/0345806220>. He
is also a founding editor of The American Prospect magazine, chairman of
Common Cause, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and
co-creator of the award-winning documentary, "Inequality For All." Reich's
newest book is "*The Common Good
<https://www.amazon.com/Common-Good-Robert-B-Reich/dp/052552049X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1521457674&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Common+Good>*."
He's co-creator of the Netflix original documentary "Saving Capitalism,"
which is streaming now.

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