Is the Left to Thank for This Stimulus?

If legislation that indicates some meaningful structural shift gets passed, let’s reassess, but until then we should dispense with the comforting illusion of having much sway over a fluid and depressing situation.

There is a comforting story that the Left is telling itself right now: thanks to Bernie Sanders’s primary run, the summer of racial justice protests, and a general upsurge in left activism (unfortunately often confined to the digital sphere), Joe Biden has been “pushed” to the left, as evidenced by his executive orders and the recent stimulus bill. Ther…