Political scientist Yannick Mireur analyzes the divisions that persist within the American Democratic Party, despite the election of Joe Biden to the White House.
Ecological and economic policies are indeed subjects of opposition between the left wing of the party and Joe Biden, rather centrist.
ANALYSIS
While Donald Trump has lost the presidential election and intends to appeal to justice, it looks like it's up to the Republican Party to heal its wounds.
But according to Yannick Mireur, political scientist, doctor in International Relations at the Fletcher School of Law in Boston, the Democratic Party should also actively work to rebuild itself on sound foundations, despite Joe Biden's victory.
Because the divisions between its members are increasingly deep, he explains at the microphone of Europe 1.
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"The big question which is before us is the recomposition of the Republican Party. However, this also concerns the Democratic Party" develops Yannick Mireur.
"Because the election itself of Donald Trump constitutes the deviation of the loss of balance, the loss of programs and social project of the two parties".
A left wing of the Democratic Party "above ground"
The Democratic Party is, according to the researcher, very divided, with "a left wing quite above ground, which has little economic realities in mind when it puts forward proposals", he judges.
The Green New Deal is an example of these divisions: proposed by the left fringe of the party, it was taken up but watered down by Joe Biden, who "brought it back to the still important realities of ecological and digital transition".
Joe Biden, elected with a rather centrist program, could see these internal divisions worsen.
"Kamala Harris, more colorful on the left, will probably have to follow the path laid out by Joe Biden," notes Yannick Mireur.
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"The Democratic Party has turned away from the middle classes"
Remains, for the political scientist, a problem of target.
According to him, "the Democratic Party has turned away from the middle classes for about thirty years, it has turned away from the deep social malaise which affects this part of the population".
A problem which also exists in other industrialized countries and which, socially, creates shortcomings.
Moreover, according to Yannick Mireur, "Joe Biden preferred speeches in favor of minorities, which led the traditional average white voter in the United States to a very protest vote. To say the least with Mr. Trump ".