Dan Berger publishes in Washington Post on Raphael Warnock win
IAS Professor Dan Berger in the Washington Post on Senator Raphael Warnock's re-election in Georgia. The article, published in the Post's Made by History section, relates Warnock's victory to a different campaign from Georgia's history: that of civil rights activist Julian Bond, elected in 1965 but prevented from taking his seat for a year. Berger writes about the Atlanta Project of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which organized not only for Bond's re-election but to fulfill his campaign promises.
"The danger of offering facile encouragement to 'outvote' voter suppression is that it separates governing from politics, campaigns from meaningful democracy," . "But they are inextricably linked. If Democrats hope to exercise power in the long-term, they will need to learn from Julian Bond and SNCC’s Atlanta Project that politics can provide destitute people a way out of bondage."