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Same as with Corbyn, I genuinely think it was the best shot electoralism was going to get - not that there were no failings, but at a fundamental level it just wasn’t enough to overcome the institutional resistance, and what those things tell me is that nothing like them will https://twitter.com/populismupdates/status/1285638551221280768
You’re not gonna, like, come roaring back with a demsoc AOC run in a few years, everything will be underwater by then anyway. Even bleaker in Britain
Even with a better candidate who makes no missteps anywhere, that’s four or eight or ten more years of entrenching for the media and the party to do against them
If you really want me to draw a lesson from this in hindsight, it’s one you’re not going to like because you can’t use it - that the only way electoralism was going to work was total audacity and taking the system by ambush, and it would only ever get one shot at it
Bernie and *especially* Corbyn suffered from being too cautious when plausibly they could have ridden those initial waves of enthusiasm into power before capital could really unite against them
That’s not really how either of them are, and those aren’t the kinds of traits you develop to become a long-lived socialist politician, so it’s not really their fault for not thinking or acting like guerrillas. But I think if they had, they might have won
Noted insane man Richard Marcinko used to say that the three essentials for special operations were speed, surprise and violence of action
Lot of replies despairing like this, and that’s not my point
https://twitter.com/farcicaltragedy/status/1286008760901632000?s=21 https://twitter.com/farcicaltragedy/status/1286008760901632000
https://twitter.com/farcicaltragedy/status/1286008760901632000?s=21 https://twitter.com/farcicaltragedy/status/1286008760901632000
My point is,
