Or was it Biden's victory and liberal's exhaustion with politics in a Trump-era world?
I can't help but wonder if the presence of a Democrat in the presidency just sort of pacifies liberal, left, and radical mass movements and mobilization.
Or was it Biden's victory and liberal's exhaustion with politics in a Trump-era world?
I can't help but wonder if the presence of a Democrat in the presidency just sort of pacifies liberal, left, and radical mass movements and mobilization.
"were pretty successful" were being the operative verb tense
There's no point in suger-coating it, the George Floyd protests were defeated, police expansion is at record levels, liberals and chuds alike have normalized neo-nazism at a national and global level, explosion of incel rhetoric among the youth, anti-homless sentiment, warmongering politics, complete and total collapse of pro-immigrant organizing under Biden, unprecedented anti-trans hysteria
We haven't seen this level of rightward shift since the early 2000s and in some way it's almost worse
2020, 2021, 2022, 2023; these four years have put the left in retreat in every aspect except in local union organizing, but even that hasn't moved the needle in terms of overall union membership among the labor force
I think it would be way worse without all the anti-fascist organizing that happened from 2015-2020.
And BLM has resulted in better outcomes than would be the case if it had never happened. Which is why the right wing is engaging in a backlash against it currently.
Police expansion was a cornerstone of Biden's campaign, and always has been. Why would the left ever support him? And how many cities which painted Black Lives Matter on their streets did anything to reign in qualified immunity or declaw the FBOP?