Opportunism is a strategy, but it can be a dangerous one and always needs a sacrifice of something (allies, principles, groups who look to you for support). In the things that I can grok as being an opportunistic strategy, this usually means throwing somebody to the wolves in an attempt to make the wolves like you.
I want to say that trying to use opportunism is done from a position of weakness. You have to have something to offer to the wolves that you actually should care to lose or damage.
Like TERF's throwing trans people to the conservative wolves in an attempt to get some kind of status in the conservative movement. Biden throwing migrants/asylum seekers into internment camps to appease the stronger conservative "if only they followed the rules they wouldn't be kept in cages" groups.
hmmm.
Opportunism is a strategy, but it can be a dangerous one and always needs a sacrifice of something (allies, principles, groups who look to you for support). In the things that I can grok as being an opportunistic strategy, this usually means throwing somebody to the wolves in an attempt to make the wolves like you.
I want to say that trying to use opportunism is done from a position of weakness. You have to have something to offer to the wolves that you actually should care to lose or damage.
Like TERF's throwing trans people to the conservative wolves in an attempt to get some kind of status in the conservative movement. Biden throwing migrants/asylum seekers into internment camps to appease the stronger conservative "if only they followed the rules they wouldn't be kept in cages" groups.