Like bottomless-brunching weekend warriors, the Democrats only binge on “Resistance” in order to purge it from the work-week political landscape. This, and not winning, is their primary function.
The Democrats returned to power in 2018, 2020, and outperformed the polls in 2022. Biden increased funding for ICE and built miles of the border wall to almost no protest. A mass movement finally emerged at the end of 2023 demanding the US stop arming Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Popular as this sentiment was, it was seen by much of the former “Resistance” coalition as threatening the Democrats’ chances against Trump in 2024…
ie the democrats refused to listen to constructive criticism from the other leftists about their policies on things genocide and immigration because they conflated ANY criticism w trump support …
… But a new season of resistance will begin, nonetheless. Rather than ignore them entirely, the lessons learned from the last eight years must be brought to these struggles as they form.
however, the democrats are STILL refusing accept that constructive criticism and their leadership are proselytizing against “cow towing” to the leftists despite their overwhelming election loss for doing that exact same thing.
Professional Democrats will lose jobs, but they can at least feel accomplished in having ushered in a new reactionary Deep State that will crush any progressive movements for generations to come.
As they become a permanent loyal opposition, the Democrats will deploy strategies to lure us back to their table. It will not be a hard case to make. Running as a Democrat, or entering its patronage network, is the easiest way to bring popular demands rooted from the struggle towards the surface. There, they can grow until mowed down, again and again.
Eventually, the Democrats may again dangle another Sanders before us. By then, it will be no use to warn our comrades that the sirens of social democracy are calling them to champagne graves. Everybody wants something like a revolution, but intellectual denunciation cannot sate real hunger …
ie prepare yourself because; from now on; every time a trump like figure shows up, the democrats are going to trip over themselves again looking for scapegoats, excuses, rationalizations, etc.; ANYTHING that will spare them from having to consider enacting policies that will address desires and needs of their voters.
this is the new reality in this country. 🤦 jfc!!!