Battle For The Soul Av Edward-Isaac Dovere

<b>An award-winning political journalist for <i>The Atlantic</i> tells the inside story of how the embattled Democratic Party, seeking a direction for its future during the Trump years, successfully regained the White House.</b><br><br>The 2020 presidential campaign was a defining moment for America. As Donald Trump and his nativist populism cowed the Republican Party into submission, many Democrats—haunted by Hillary Clinton’s shocking loss in 2016 and the resulting four-year-long identity crisis—were convinced that he would be unbeatable. Their party and the country, it seemed, might never recover.<br> <br>How, then, did Democrats manage to win the presidency, especially after the longest primary race with the biggest field ever? How did they keep themselves united through an internal struggle between newly empowered progressives and establishment forces—playing out against a pandemic, an economic crisis, and a new racial reckoning?<br><br> Edward-Isaac D