The DNC gave Republican figures plum speaking slots, but featured few voices from the party’s insurgent left wing who are calling for substantive progressive changes. Still, former NAACP president Ben Jealous and professor Cornel West say the Biden-Harris ticket represents an opportunity for a broad anti-Trump coalition to unite. “The theme of this convention was really one of unity,” Jealous says. “This is a time when we have to come together to defeat a president who is the most evil, the most corrupt that any of us have seen.” Dr. West is more critical. “We are going to be forced to vote for Biden, but we are not going to lie about Biden or Harris,” he says. “At this moment, with the decline and fall of the American empire, it looks as if the system is unable to generate enough energy to seriously reform itself.”
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