I have a leftist friend who's a historian writing a paper on how the right is so successful at organizing and why the left sucks at it. Trying to help them gather sources. The more scholary the better.
She's particularly looking at right wing paramilitary organizations (proud boys, 3%s ect) And why the left has trouble forming their own.
Edit: question might have been a bit ambiguous, we all know a lot of the basic reasons for this, what I need is the type of thing that can be used for an academic research paper. Interesting discussion is still good though so have at it.
Yeah - a good approach would be to focus on the times the Democrats and Republicans closed ranks to deny the left a victory. Like the way the Democrats killed the Populist Party in the 1890s, or the way the Democrats gave up and endorsed the Republican so as to not let Hunter S. Thompson become sheriff of Aspen. :hst-pissed:
Also the dirty tricks they used against Upton Sinclair, I think :matt: talked about it on one of his History is a Weapon pods
And of course, we cannot forget about :punished-bernie: and the bullshit they pulled on him
They did this against socialists in municipal Pennsylvania politics in early 20th century. Prob other places too: https://journals.psu.edu/phj/article/view/23744/23513
When the Dems and repubs allied against the successful socialist government, they called them "fusionists"