Here is an answer to the Jacobin article claiming that Biden blew the election because he wasn't left enough. In the Jacobin article, they point out that "the economy" was foremost on the minds of many voters, including Trump voters. Jacobin interprets this to mean that Biden should have taken a more left position on the economy. What they fail to see is that what most voters mean by "the economy" is that they see the policies of deregulation and environmental destruction as meaning more jobs. (In fact, I think they are right about that in the short run. The underlying question is "to what extent should the government intervene in the economy?" The only way to undercut the "jobs" argument is to argue against the "free market", then. That is an extended argument and of course all socialists oppose the "free" market as being the greatest destructive force on earth. But we are most certainly not going to convince even a sizeable portion of US voters, never mind the majority, in one election cycle. In fact, it will require events on the ground.

Basically, I think Jacobin - like so many others in and around the "left" of the Democratic Party - refuse to recognize the deep conservatism that exists in the US. It is a conservatism born of the power of US capitalism at home and abroad. That makes it all the more important to start the task of building a mass working class party. Such a party would not win national or even state wide elections at present. But it would be an organizing center for key sectors of the US working class.

Here's the Atlantic article:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/5-reasons-voters-didnt-punish-trump-for-the-economy/617010/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20201106&silverid-ref=Njc3MDkwMzY2NDIxS0
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