The events of 2020 and likely 2021 are a significant opportunity to reach out to struggling lib friends pissed at Pelosi and Biden for not helping them and maybe even some struggling chud relatives who are disillusioned about Trump/Qanon/etc., the sort of proles/lumpen who could be facing evictions at the end of this month and willing to entertain drastic measures. The donald dot lose has a link to the suicide hotline on their front page.

We will have plenty of opportunities to grow the left if we take the correct positions, listen patiently to valid political complaints about either or both ruling parties or the ruling class (even if some of the phrasing might be problematic, in which case we latch on to the most truthful bits, pulling baby from bathwater), and help to point them gently in the correct direction if they're willing to listen.

Marxist organizations not tainted by the failures of DSA or other entryist/popular-frontist/opportunist tendencies have the opportunity to act, and need to act, as a candlelight shining in this period of darkness and sinking working-class morale now or soon, more so than any time since Occupy and the Arab Spring. Decades can happen in weeks. Workers in other parts of the world, for example Nigeria, Bolivia, and especially India, could be in a position to change the situation on the world stage for the better if guided by effective leadership, in ways that US workers won't be able to ignore as easily, the same way we can no longer ignore the gulf between the Chinese and Cuban responses to covid and the imperial core countries' responses to covid.