There is, however, an available arena where West could still provide useful pressure by laying out the left alternative to Bidenism: the Democratic primaries. On the debate stage, at campaign rallies, and in national media coverage, West, with his prophetic voice and moral clarity—like Sanders in 2016 and 2020—could accomplish a great deal.
D.D. Guttenplan is editor of The Nation.
Bhaskar Sunkara is the president of The Nation.
As if there will be debates, LOL
What’s the Hexbear opinion on Cornel West’s candidacy? I have no illusions that he is anything other than a social democrat … but no other candidate with any chance of success is talking about disbanding NATO, public healthcare, in short, Bernie-style policies. If he were elected over Biden (unlikely in 2024 but sometimes it takes a cycle for the public to get used to the idea of a new politician) it would be a forward step I think. Not everything but something.
He was pro Reagan. In 2011.
He co-authored a pro-desantis op-ed in the last year because Desanctimonius passed some law benefiting some ghoulish education NGO West co-founded with a Hertiage guy.
Bro makes Bernie look like Stalin.
Lmao I just read about West’s tweet about Reagan being a freedom fighter. The fuck?
https://twitter.com/CornelWest/status/1666114005877010432?lang=en
His rhetoric is pretty anti-AES at times. Likes to use the label "imperalism" to describe anything Russia and China do. Very much seems like he'd try to do a tailism to win over the racist elements of the white working class.
On the other hand, he's got name recognition and calls the USA an imperialist racist nation.
So maybe slightly left of Tulsi Gabbard