The Left Gets Ready to Pressure the Biden Administration

Left-wing activists joined forces with Biden to defeat Trump, but their silence is already ending

Andrea González-Ramírez
GEN
Published in
6 min readNov 19, 2020

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Members of the Sunrise Movement gather for a rally outside of the DNC headquarters in New York City. Photo: Erik McGregor/Getty Images

For most of 2020, the left played nice. Many progressive leaders joined Joe Biden’s coalition because they believed defeating Donald Trump was paramount and the only way to advance their agenda. But now that…

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Andrea González-Ramírez
GEN
Writer for

Award-winning Puerto Rican journalist. Senior Writer at New York Magazine’s The Cut. Formerly GEN, Refinery29, and more. Read my work: https://www.thecut.com/