Ah, I understand now. He's employing the strategy of switching parties so quickly in an effort to clip through the wall and secure either the Democratic or Republican nomination when the electoral system sees he's out of bounds and pushes him back into a party.
Speedrunners employ similar strategies.
Ready to watch Cornell West slide up the steps of the White House backwards and on his ass
Lmao can you imagine “As a surprise ending to a long primary process, The Republican Party has officially nominated Dr. Cornel West as its presidential candidate over Donald Trump. Chris Christie is the first of the primary candidates to endorse Dr. West.”
his politics might not be great but clowning on the american electoral system is still funny
It's a symptom of not having many vocal, public leftist figures in the USA. In the 90s you really only had like two people, Cornel West and Noam Chomsky. The radicalism of the 60s and 70s had long since been smothered by the reactionary 80s, so literally between the early 90s all the way until Sanders in 2016, there just weren't a lot of public leftist voices.
West would be on TV in the 90s and 00s, which I think was a huge part of his legacy and image. He'd be on national TV saying stuff like systemic racism, or imperialism, and I remember he was even saying stuff about trans rights as far back as the early 90s. So he definitely had his place, I guess, but maybe he was one of the view that managed to fill the complete vacuum void of how empty/defeated the 90s were for leftists.
In any case, West's just a personality figure who likes doing speeches and selling books. You're right that he could retire now and have a mostly positive legacy. He's been correct his entire career about structural racism, but in essence he's just a professor and we can't expect him to have been a revolutionary or anything.
Funniest Shitposting campaign, defending Ron Desantis at one Communist Party to calling for his execution at the next
"I have run as a candidate for every communist party in the United States [challenge]"
Going to be the first line in his legacy subsection on Wikipedia
I'm too lazy to watch a video, but didn't he switch from People's Party to Green for poll access? Now as an independent he'd have to get his own poll access right?
He's always been a crank who's given off the impression he's more radical than he actually is. He has a good oratory style and calls people bother and sister, and he has a very good sense of American racism and how it works. He was also in the DSA in that inbetween period where it basically didn't exist, like after Michael Harrington was gone, but before the 2016 surge. All of that gave off a sense he was a radical socialist, whereas he's always been more of a personality driven liberal.
Unfortunately he's also a professor at an Ivy league school and has been for decades. That's what he's been this entire time, a professor looking for book deals who is all too eager to say things just to get notoriety. There have only been two ivy league professors I know who stayed cool their entire careers, and that's our friends Richard Wolff and Michael Parenti. Those two are absolute kings. (honorary mentions to Jodi Dean and Perry Anderson, who are also some rare good professors) If there are any other actually good ivy league profs I've never heard of them.
Vanity and money is my best guess. It's hard to say. His campaign is being run by our old friend Peter Daou, who is a genuine true believer I think. He was all behind Clinton in 2016, but had a massive change of heart to become more progressive in recent years (hence why we started calling him Chairman Daou)
Maybe West thinks this is the best way to keep a progressive platform vocalized to the public absent a figure like Bernie Sanders. I don't think he's under any impression he'll actually win.
Daou is definitely a true believer, but what that belief is in seems pretty arbitrary
i'll be honest, i have no idea why the greens exist, who is donating to them, or what they expect to achieve. the communist parties that run, tiny as they are, at least know they're gonna lose.
As for most countries in the west: The anti-nuclear movement of the 80s + de-radicalization of the 70s New Left. Or parties founded modeled after the above
As for the US, the Ralph Nader 2000 Presidential Campaign and its consequences, probably.
Lol.
i just wanna know if i can vote for orb mommy this year fr fr
It will be hilarious if, at the time of actually casting votes, he running as a Republican.
