Dont know how Chomsky thinks this will be an admin susceptible to any outside pressure.
Amen. It's borderline delusional that people think this. The future of the Democrats is to abandon the left completely. In terms of donors and voters, they have much more to gain in the short term by consolidating their dying 'progressive' neoliberalism with the dying neoconservative movement that used to form the base of the GOP.
David Frum, the Lincoln Project, and all the Bush era ghouls will be the ones who have the power to reform the Dems, not Bernie or the Squad. At this point, it seems like even the most modest social democracy requires making a clean break with the Dems, and forming a large enough 3rd party left-wing voting block that can credibly tip elections, forcing some sort of compromise.
Amen. It's borderline delusional that people think this. The future of the Democrats is to abandon the left completely. In terms of donors and voters, they have much more to gain in the short term by consolidating their dying 'progressive' neoliberalism with the dying neoconservative movement that used to form the base of the GOP.
David Frum, the Lincoln Project, and all the Bush era ghouls will be the ones who have the power to reform the Dems, not Bernie or the Squad. At this point, it seems like even the most modest social democracy requires making a clean break with the Dems, and forming a large enough 3rd party left-wing voting block that can credibly tip elections, forcing some sort of compromise.