November 27, 2012
Somewhere Under the Rainbow
When will the Left move on from movement-building?
There should be no honeymoon for Obama or holiday for Congress. Now is the time for hitting the ground running, both as a militant minority and a wider progressive majority.
A rainbow coalition of Democratic voters gave Barack Obama a victory over big Wall Street money and the steady drumbeat of hard-right racism. Nearly 45 percent of the president’s voters were people of color, with their numbers augmented by white women, youth and trade unionists. It was enough to keep him in the White House, but not enough to decisively change the overall balance of forces.
Now the harder struggles begin—for Obama, for the Democratic Party and for the Left. Tough choices face all three.
