Honestly feel this way. He died not too long after the Bernie 2020 campaign ended and when Covid was still in full swing.
Honestly in a way he was lucky because he didn't get to see all the fucking bullshit that came later (e.g. Biden, "the pandemic is over jack!", Gaza, etc.).
But his death kind of symbolized the start of the "blackpill" era for lack of a better term.
I miss him a lot. COVID, then Bernie losing, then Brooks (and Graeber) passing, then BLM getting completely coopted by the Democratic party without hardly a fight, followed by four years of the Biden administration steadily ratcheting everything to the right like a boa constrictor. Completely wiped out all of the optimism that had been built during the Trump years. We're in a very sobering era. But the hope will return soon, as Brook's favorite succdem says, you can cut down a hundred roses but you can't stop the spring