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The Democratic Party Fights Back Against the Socialist Takeover

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Then–President Joe Biden and Representative Jim Clyburn (D., S.C.) walk together in West Columbia, S.C., July 6, 2023. Inset: Hasan Piker

Jonathan Ernst, Danny Moloshok/Reuters

Joe Biden didn’t mince words when his White House set out to kneecap the radicals in his party who nearly cost him the presidential nomination in 2020 and, it was thought at the time, robbed them of what should have been a better election cycle.

The presidential primary system, Biden insisted, was not only a relic of a bygone age in desperate need of an update. It was a moral abomination. “For decades,” he wrote, “Black voters in particular have been the backbone of the Democratic Party but have been pushed to the back of the early primary process.”

Noah Rothman

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Noah Rothman

Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review. His third book, Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence, was published by Hachette in May 2026.

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