The current Democratic Party is increasingly reliant on affluent suburbanites to achieve power, and so those are the demographics that would wield the most leverage within the party coalition under Biden. Antifa/"BLM" is a sideshow to play-act radicalism
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These suburbanites have adopted increasingly radical-seeming cultural attitudes, and of course that has some influence on the composition of the party. But it's mostly just superficial gloss to rationalize status quo perpetuation -- with a few identity-related adjustments
Biden's campaign is courting and emphasizing endorsements from people like Cindy McCain and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson for a reason. If your answer to the question "whose interests will be most served by a Biden Administration" is "antifa" -- you are living in a fairy tale
It's a similar fairy tale that left-wing activists and journalists told themselves in 2016 when they maintained that the chief beneficiaries of a Trump Administration would be "Literal Nazis." You're so desperate to have a Culture War that you've become analytically deluded
"Catastrophism" across the political spectrum obscures the reality of what's actually happening in US affairs. It's also algorithmically driven: the people who peddle it turn into social media stars and cable news heroes. But the product is ultimately just junk food for the mind
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