By fighting Kevin McCarthy’s bid to become the next Speaker of the House, the right wing of the Republican Party won significant concessions that will make it a powerful player in Congress. The Left should learn to replicate its tactics for egalitarian ends.
Yes, it means until we have an organized mass base and some forms of dual power progressive politicians are useless. But I am saying that I thing that the disruption and media ruckus would have the opposite effect. Because of the media's right wing bias and the Democrats messaging (as opposed to the Republican's) is based around "we want good progressive things, but the only real way to attain it is through incremental moderate reform" means that that media backlash will harm left/progressives in a way that it doesn't for the far-right. It wont really be that much of a mask-off moment, because they can even let party mainstreamers vote for it if there is still no hope of it passing. Same Manchin/Lieberman/Sinema type bullshit.
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I think the hope was always that ‘progressives’ get targets to challenge in primaries based on the machin/sinemas of the house. Keep in mind the elections are every 2 years for the house, as opposed to 6 for the senate.