When Will Democrats Learn Unifying America Is for Suckers?
Centrists like Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg want to govern like Obama — which led to Trump
Presidential candidates claiming that they can “unify” or “heal” the United States is among the worst platitudes in politics, one that’s proven itself more useless with every passing day of the Trump era. But it hasn’t stopped Democratic presidential candidates from saying they intend to do exactly that.
The idea that Americans all have to be on the same page even in the most general way has been a consistent one throughout the Democratic primary, particularly from the center. In last week’s debate alone, former Vice President Joe Biden said that “we have to unify the country,” Sen. Kamala Harris opined that the Democratic nominee needs to be “someone who can unify the party and the country,” Pete Buttigieg said that his experience as mayor of South Bend, Indiana — the only experience he has — taught him that you “have to be an executive that can heal.” (South Bend’s black community might have something to say about that.) And Sen. Cory Booker said that the next president is “going to have to be someone who can heal and bring this nation together, this whole nation.” Really? Even the neo-Nazis and flat earthers?
