Since the New Deal, Democrats have struggled to hold together the eclectic elements of their coalition. As things now stand, the Democratic Party led by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris seems likely to have a very good election. If Mr. Biden wins convincingly, he will probably owe it to these voters, not to the so-called rising American electorate of growth demographics. The Biden coalition includes some strongly left-leaning groups that aren’t likely to see things this way. These forces consider themselves the vanguard of a new Democratic Party quite different from Mr. Biden’s comparatively staid liberal meliorism.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 14, 2020 18:00 UTC