*As long as the Democrats shy away from the redistributive action needed to tackle glaring inequalities in a country where the gap between richest and poorest has more than doubled in the past two decades, there will be an opening for the Trumpist right to present itself as the solution to a broken system – the alternative to Biden and the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell.*

There are two paths that appear to lead out of the centrist pit: the honest path (someone like Sanders) and the lying path (someone like the wrecker).