The right wing influencers don’t get “canceled” in this way, and among themselves they largely boost one another and say shit like “I don’t agree with everything this person says, but you should check them out because…”

Yeah this is only true if you don’t follow radical right politics. The radical right says exactly the same thing about us. They lambast themselves for not having solidarity, and they regularly and viciously attempt to ‘cancel’ each other over not being sufficiently racist.

The left does fine with coming up with supporting people. I mean, hell, Parenti’s a go-to recommendation for us, and yet he took an anti line on modern China. I regularly see Manufacturing Consent recommended, despite it being by Chomsky. Pretty much everyone supported Corbyn and, to a degree, Sanders.

I’m all for workshopping slogans etc, but let’s be real, the left is effective as hell at slogans already. Medicare for all. Not me, us. Workers of the world, unite. People before profit. MeToo. BlackLivesMatter. Defund/abolish the police.

As an added bonus, we can actually say those out loud to people without them thinking we’re nut jobs. There’s no need to go full crypto, whereas the right is stuck with their 14s and 88s, and soon as a new thing becomes associated with them, it becomes taboo.

The right needs to workshop so much, because it needs to be deceptive. The left has it much easier. We can be open.