Some of the biggest barriers to progress on racial justice are of the Democrats’ own making, writes zakcheneyrice
President Biden on July 19. Photo: Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times/Redux Joe Biden won by promising less. Vocal factions in the Democratic Party and beyond saw Hillary Clinton’s 2016 defeat as evidence that Americans were hungry for something bold and transformative from the left. But the former vice-president made a more modest bet in 2020: that people mostly wanted Donald Trump’s presidency to be over and a more competent response to the pandemic.
This pattern has also played out on the issue Biden has imbued with the most moral urgency: racial inequality. He launched his candidacy with a video lamenting the lethal racism on display in Charlottesville in 2017. He has committed to rooting out racial disparities in the prison system.
Biden bears more individual responsibility on incarceration. He could end mass imprisonment on the federal level today with the stroke of a pen by using clemency. He has signaled to advocates that he wants to use this power generously and soon.
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