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

The Democratic establishment says this election is about preserving democracy - yet are more worried about looking disunited than winning the election

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.

Judith Levine is a Brooklyn journalist and essayist, a contributing writer to the Intercept and the author of five books