The most obvious possibility is AOC. In that case I am sure she'll move even further right and get totally ratfucked by the party regardless. That's the most jokerified option, I think. At the very least, her obvious ratfucking will push many more people to the left like the Bernie campaigns did.

But the worst possibility is some rando Democratic apparatchik we've never heard of like Mayo Pete showing up. They take up all the aesthetics of Bernie's campaigns, they receive the glowing endorsements of Bernie and the squad, but they seemingly refuse to outright promise anything we would call "good", and they suspiciously receive no material push-back whatsoever from the Democratic party establishment other than some clearly bad faith grumblings about how spooky and radical this person is. Win or lose, they completely suck the energy out of leftist movements in the imperial core for a further decade.

  • privatized_sun [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    suck the energy out of leftist movements in the imperial core for a further decade.

    Your post doesn't mention "workers" a single time, maybe try getting an actual solid foundation before you attempt to build a politic's? Just a thought!

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      OP isn’t posting about politics, they are posting about theater. Ooh, what character is going to do a heel turn in season 3??

    • cosecantphi [he/him, they/them]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      I'm sorry, I don't think I was attempting to "build a politics" of any sort. I was just shooting the shit about which lib politician would be directing self described American leftists toward electoralism next, like u/zed_proclaimer said