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In the wake of Super Tuesday, has the Democratic presidential primary fight finally winnowed down to Joe Biden versus Bernie Sanders? This week on “The Argument,” the columnists discuss the results of this week’s voting and what they mean for the rest of the 2020 race. Ross Douthat notes that the establishment Democrats have successfully rallied around Biden, unlike in 2016, when establishment Republicans failed to unite in blocking Donald Trump’s nomination. David Leonhardt claims Super Tuesday shows the chief failure of the Sanders campaign so far: winning voters outside his base. And Michelle Goldberg thinks Sanders is a less dangerous candidate than Biden to run in the general election.
Then, as the coronavirus epidemic approaches pandemic status, how alarmed should we be and what can be done to limit the spread of the disease?
And finally, Michelle suggests you “Walk Through Fire.” And no, she doesn’t mean survive the 2020 election.
Background Reading:
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Ross on the case for Biden, why Democrats coalesced around his candidacy while Republicans failed to stop Donald Trump in 2016 and the case for coronavirus alarm
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Michelle on why Sanders can’t rely on a surge of new voters and Biden’s risky electability case
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David on Biden’s big night, Sanders’s failure to try to expand his coalition and why the primary battle is now a two-way race between Biden and Sanders
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Ezra Klein, “Sanders Can’t Lead the Democrats if His Campaign Treats Them Like the Enemy” (Vox)
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John Hendrickson, “What Joe Biden Can’t Bring Himself to Say” (The Atlantic)
Meet the Hosts
Ross Douthat
I’ve been an Op-Ed columnist since 2009, and I write about politics, religion, pop culture, sociology and the places where they all intersect. I’m a Catholic and a conservative, in that order, which means that I’m against abortion and critical of the sexual revolution, but I tend to agree with liberals that the Republican Party is too friendly to the rich. I was against Donald Trump in 2016 for reasons specific to Donald Trump, but in general I think the populist movements in Europe and America have legitimate grievances and I often prefer the populists to the “reasonable” elites. I’ve written books about Harvard, the G.O.P., American Christianity and Pope Francis; I’m working on one about decadence. Benedict XVI was my favorite pope. I review movies for National Review and have strong opinions about many prestige television shows. I have three small children, two girls and a boy, and I live in New Haven with my wife.
Michelle Goldberg
I’ve been an Op-Ed columnist at The New York Times since 2017, writing mainly about politics, ideology and gender. These days people on the right and the left both use “liberal” as an epithet, but that’s basically what I am, though the nightmare of Donald Trump’s presidency has radicalized me and pushed me leftward. I’ve written three books, including one, in 2006, about the danger of right-wing populism in its religious fundamentalist guise. (My other two were about the global battle over reproductive rights and, in a brief detour from politics, about an adventurous Russian émigré who helped bring yoga to the West.) I love to travel; a long time ago, after my husband and I eloped, we spent a year backpacking through Asia. Now we live in Brooklyn with our son and daughter.
David Leonhardt
I’ve worked at The Times since 1999 and have been an Op-Ed columnist since 2016. I caught the journalism bug a very long time ago — first as a little kid in the late 1970s who loved reading the Boston Globe sports section and later as a teenager working on my high school and college newspapers. I discovered that when my classmates and I put a complaint in print, for everyone to see, school administrators actually paid attention. I’ve since worked as a metro reporter at The Washington Post and a writer at Businessweek magazine. At The Times, I started as a reporter in the business section and have also been a Times Magazine staff writer, the Washington bureau chief and the founding editor of The Upshot.
My politics are left of center. But I’m also to the right of many Times readers. I think education reform has accomplished a lot. I think two-parent families are good for society. I think progressives should be realistic about the cultural conservatism that dominates much of this country. Most of all, however, I worry deeply about today’s Republican Party, which has become dangerously extreme. This country faces some huge challenges — inequality, climate change, the rise of China — and they’ll be very hard to solve without having both parties committed to the basic functioning of American democracy.
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Tune in on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you listen to podcasts. Tell us what you think at argument@nytimes.com. Follow Michelle Goldberg (@michelleinbklyn), Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) and David Leonhardt (@DLeonhardt) on Twitter.
This week’s show was produced by James T. Green for Transmitter Media and edited by Sara Nics. Our executive producer is Gretta Cohn. We had help from Fredy Chevez, Tyson Evans, Phoebe Lett, Michele Teodori, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ryan McEvoy and Francis Ying. Our theme is composed by Allison Leyton-Brown.
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