Jacobin socialists love Walmart and hate anything that cuts through the idealist bullshit of the middle class.
A left that only knows how to shame, call out, privilege-check, and diagnose the allegedly unsavory motivations of people who disagree with us will lose a lot of persuadable people whose material interests should put them on our side.
this bloodless dork puts scare quotes around "allegedly unsavory motivations" (read Settlers) and yet turns on a dime to LARP as a woke redpilled Marxist who has analyzed peoples material interests and somehow knows they're comrades.
When you've succumbed to pure ideology, it makes you so bad at your job that even a logic nerd is forced to put an obvious contradiction in the same sentence!
I think there is a real widening recruiting gap that became crystalized during the protest when you had pseudo black panthers doing instagram photo ops and then the real black militia shows up, but they are no longer leftist. I don't think it is as simple as the left talks about privilege and it alienates people, but I dunno, it's like the left is just very uncomfortable with popular anger. Then when you have a situation like a popular uprising where you actually do need a bunch of angry young men to go fight, any effort in that direction clashes with the internal culture and scares people.
It's almost like the upswell of activism in the wake of Bernie pulls from a section of the working class that is particularly liberal and squishy