He’s been arguing this on the Cushvlogs.
There’s truth in it, but it’s not the whole truth, not the only truth.
Just this year, most American lefties - from disparate groups to isolated individuals - coalesced to credibly threaten to pull together the majority of American voters in the presidential election to put a beloved, irascible, smart old leftie codger into the White House.
The ‘Not me. Us’ movement.
It was the only presidential campaign I remember that issued a moral challenge to its supporters - fight as hard for people who are different from you.
I could only cheer from afar.
I watched you knock on doors and talk to people, phonebank and talk to more people, donate and tell your friends.
I watched you post until you were saw!
It was a loss, but it was not a failure.
There is a structure that the ‘Not me. Us’ campaign built that must be used to campaign hard, right now, for Medicare For All.
If that structure - all the contacts and lines of communication - were handed over to the DNC to be used to elect yet another racist rapist, that would be a grim failure.
And if the ‘Not me, Us’ campaign is allowed to dissipate and is not used - that will be a failure.
Flex that muscle now, or let it wither.
Cush is wrong, you're more right but still wrong too. The Bernie campaign won't leave behind any useful structure, at least not in the campaign infrastructure itself. The people who were inspired by that campaign who fold into PSL, dsa, Salt, and IWW are the 'left' and are forming into a useful muscle imo.
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I hope so. And when I see it, I’ll cheer it.
im owning you please stop being nice to me
I’m beginning to enjoy this business of being down-beared whenever I go looking for a good fight to cheer!
Our Revolution, an expanded DSA, Indivisible, and an assortment of other local organizations will persist in the wake of the campaign. Bernie's social network will reconstitute during election years, and his campaign aids and allies are already being promoted in media and politics for subsequent power struggles.
We don't have a Neara Tanden style Center For American Progress holding-tank for Berniecrats, but we're getting there.