West, the phantom of the opera for 2024 elections

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Cornell West announced his presidential bid for 2024 elections, and democrats and liberals has started to worry; the prospect looks horrible for them, as West can drive away a lot of important votes, not only the blacks but even the influent black academia. This is a clear reference to 2016 elections, when Green Party drifted away a lot of truly needed liberal votes; weakening the candidature of Hillary Clinton, who still losing by electoral votes could have won with that major liberal spectrum.

Republicans may have a reason to rejoice with this inner battle of liberalism that, can handle them the victory again; when they have so much trouble to stablish a viable candidate, with all the controversy surrounding Donald Trump. Curiously, conservatism and republicans look always in better terms among them than democrats and liberals; which may be a hint for democrats, the leading organization with all that leverage, to rethink their political priorities.

The problem with the Democratic party could be just its lack of real interest, marginalizing its base with its elitism; something that West can fix since his elitism is black, so its somehow popular in its populism, even relatively marginal. Democrats could root this viscerality of West in that same 2016 confrontation, when the popular choice was Bernie Sanders; who’s popularity they sacrifice for the already convened Clinton candidacy, not matter her unpopularity.

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The imposition of Hillary Clinton —with the scandalous sellout of Elizabeth Warren— was a reminder of this party elitism; meaning economic corporatism, as a continuity of Bill Clinton policy model, leading to the actual disaster. Although the candidacy of West may not be guided for this frustration, still have the capacity to channel it; profiting from the discontent of that actual middle class, pushed to the same marginality of black —and popular in its populism— finest elites.

This would also channel the black frustration with Obama’s presidency, hidden in the duplicity of that black elitism; which supported the Democratic confrontation of 2008 just because the vague promise of the first black president. Since then though, Obama —among other offenses— unnecessarily made the eulogy of a former KKK leader; as a clear cooling of those black aspirations, pushed to background with natural resentments, that could be brought to life with West; as a natural opposition to corporatism, retroactively legitimated in that support of Sanders against Hillary, and thus popular.

This disdain for popular resentment is a clear sign of democratic elitism, weakening liberal prospects in politics; with an unpopularity that can be hidden with the collusion of the Media, but not managed with its popular spirit. Cornell West is the right response to that, conditioning the black support as an uniquely effective black caucus; that may not win, but makes the black demands to be heard and not just managed as a herd, as with Joe Biden’s BLM crisis.

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This is also a good reminder for republicans to put their stuff together, even if not taking account of black demands; because those votes drifted away from democratic elitism are not necessarily leaded in their direction, but just as liberal weakening. This can make of the next administration a hell of entangled negotiations, with not clear winner for nobody; and can even surprise everyone with an unforeseeable victory for West, as that of Donald Trump in 2016 that could have inspire him. This last, about with that other phenomenon of black elitism political singularity, which is not always liberal; but containing a huge amount of actually gentrified black academics, silent in the presence of the noisy media but still voting.