Democrats divided: Biden's election win brings end to party's uneasy truce

Winning the White House has done little to mend the party's fractures - and the left is on collision course with the moderates

Joe Biden's first hours as president-elect were met by his supporters with spontaneous dance parties, champagne showers and car parades that wound through several blocks. But amid the Biden-Harris" placards and T-shirts dotting a diverse crowd gathered in front of the White House last week, there was a creeping sense that the source of their shared jubilation had less to do with the dragon-slayer than the dragon slayed.

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