For US democracy to survive, it needs progressives like Sanders and AOC

‘Democrats must look to the faction they’ve distanced themselves from: the left.’ Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA

In France, more than 200 candidates dropped out of their races to consolidate the left-center vote and defeat the extreme right. In Israel, Labor and the leftwing Meretz party are merging to offer “a real alternative to the path of the failed and dangerous government”.

And in the US, the Democrats are on a death march behind the zombie Joe Biden, more worried about looking disunited than winning the election.