The situation of dems losing the electability argument was in the minds of the socdems supposed to be the catalyst that triggers a grand return of Keynesianism and social democracy in the United States; AOC will become president, the New New Deal will be passed and Republicans and centrists won’t even be elected dog catcher…etc.
The problem of course is that’s pure utopianism, Keynesianism is dead and is never coming back, neoliberalism was specifically designed to kill it, historical social democracy was a temporary contingent set of policies that only came about due to post-war conditions and a strong communist alternative in the world, and likewise isn’t coming back
The institutions of this country and it’s military apparatus will not at the end of the day allow a socdem insurgency to take over the federal government, that would be like saying the CIA will become friendly to leftists, it’s ludicrous
Instead the socdems in their idealist drive COULD HAVE triggered a rupture of the two party system, a collapse of it’s legalistic norms and the mass radicalization of tens of millions of former dems and more importantly the activation of non-voters into a third party system that could’ve emerged as a result of the rupture. But the DSA and it’s socdem allies were simply too timid this election cycle, this was the last chance, they needed to win far more seats than they’re about to win to trigger the rupture and the candidates needed to be sightly less socdemy that they are. Zohran was supposed to be the mediocre archetypical example of this new breed of unintentional rupturers, instead he’s the “gold standard”, the pedestal, the idol, the one they all get compared to, THE CEILING, that’s not enough, they needed new candidates who could make him look like the left liberal he is
As a result instead of a rupture, we’re gonna get a one-sided purge, aside from leaning into Islamophobia, I don’t pretend to know the specific ways the DNC will utilize to purge the party, in the end they may take this outside the arena of electoralism and into the realm of state violence, trumped up charges of supporting terror and arrest them, if the base is traumatized and demoralized, the DNC will respond with “who cares, what are they gonna do”? Vote for republicans or another George Floyd scale rebellion? They know how to defeat those threats
The situation of dems losing the electability argument was in the minds of the socdems supposed to be the catalyst that triggers a grand return of Keynesianism and social democracy in the United States; AOC will become president, the New New Deal will be passed and Republicans and centrists won’t even be elected dog catcher…etc.
The problem of course is that’s pure utopianism, Keynesianism is dead and is never coming back, neoliberalism was specifically designed to kill it, historical social democracy was a temporary contingent set of policies that only came about due to post-war conditions and a strong communist alternative in the world, and likewise isn’t coming back
The institutions of this country and it’s military apparatus will not at the end of the day allow a socdem insurgency to take over the federal government, that would be like saying the CIA will become friendly to leftists, it’s ludicrous
Instead the socdems in their idealist drive COULD HAVE triggered a rupture of the two party system, a collapse of it’s legalistic norms and the mass radicalization of tens of millions of former dems and more importantly the activation of non-voters into a third party system that could’ve emerged as a result of the rupture. But the DSA and it’s socdem allies were simply too timid this election cycle, this was the last chance, they needed to win far more seats than they’re about to win to trigger the rupture and the candidates needed to be sightly less socdemy that they are. Zohran was supposed to be the mediocre archetypical example of this new breed of unintentional rupturers, instead he’s the “gold standard”, the pedestal, the idol, the one they all get compared to, THE CEILING, that’s not enough, they needed new candidates who could make him look like the left liberal he is
As a result instead of a rupture, we’re gonna get a one-sided purge, aside from leaning into Islamophobia, I don’t pretend to know the specific ways the DNC will utilize to purge the party, in the end they may take this outside the arena of electoralism and into the realm of state violence, trumped up charges of supporting terror and arrest them, if the base is traumatized and demoralized, the DNC will respond with “who cares, what are they gonna do”? Vote for republicans or another George Floyd scale rebellion? They know how to defeat those threats
All I know is, 2027 will be ugly for the left