From the guest list, the show looked like it was created to have a space where left commentators of various sorts would come on and hash out ideological differences as the US left is in the wilderness post-Bernie. It would be interesting, I thought, to have a show where an ultra like Sean KB from The Antifada could explain Marxist theory on a panel with social democrats and have some kind of discussion.
It turns out that its basically just a radlib version of The Five from Fox News, where they just take turns kicking the tires on the days news.
Does anyone actually want a show like this? It seems like its trying to fill a market that doesn't exist - or maybe existed a few years ago and doesn't today. When I look around, I don't think to myself, "You know who has some understanding of the political struggle we face in this moment? This DSA-backed state legislator from NYC."
Listening to it was deeply unsettling. I don't recommend it.
Isn't this essentially what Lee Carter did?
Lee Carter is a socdem, at least he is the last time I heard of him.
Lee Carter is more left than that. What he really is, is a successful version of joshua 4 congress.
I dunno
Again, I think that's just him being dumb than any sort of lack of desire to end capitalism. Hence he's just a more successful J4C.
But oof that's a bad take, tactical differences do not make a different ideology.
That's why he is on my suspicious list.
I don't know exactly what he did, but I get an impression that Lee Carter operates too much as an independent individual, rather than as a part of a local political movement.
These latest NYC DSA electeds for the most part only really do things that the chapter votes for their elected officials to do although there still is some horizontalism. In the case of Sawant in Seattle, everything she does is done with the consensus of SAlts leadership committee.