He's explicitly neither and it's pretty disgusting that you would make those kinds of accusations without any kind of evidence. Weaponize liberal identity politics much?

Are you so butthurt about a little critique of the symbolism of your favorite drug that you need to comment about it in random other posts? Is this your personal crusade now?

Since when is every symbolic form in the superstructure explainable by a direct material antecedent? Stop trying to sound smart.

Do you know of a good source I could cite re: Robert Conquest? I am currently debunking an article a friend sent me that cites him as an authoritative source.

I think the idea is it’s hard to imagine any candidate/campaign doing a better job at opening up that space on a national level than Bernie, and his campaign was a complete failure. There might be occasional opportunities at the local level, but the structural characteristics of the system will repress them either before or after they are able to reach national prominence.