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This is no honeymoon, the American "left" will never recover from the Harris/Walz combo; every major base of support (demographic/economic) is covered; Black woman with a jovial heartlandish white man standing behind her is the universal password for the legendary "competent American fascism" software update leftists have been prophesying.

They got this shit locked for at least eight years, Walz is suburbanite catnip and Harris has the identity libs eating out her hands, along with big tech, wallstreet, and the zionist lobby who are now methodically eliminating the last holdouts of the post-2016 nascent left movement

There is no credible avenue of leverage here, the libs can effectively respond to any leftist utterance with accusations of racism, misogyny, and purity testing and it will stick. Already we have most liberals being one rhetorical step away from defending Walz unleashing the National Guard on BLM protesters

There is no point in engaging with domestic national politics at this current time, the ball is firmly overseas

The only series of events that can undermine this new DNC paradigm is Israel blowing up the world and the US mobilizing to save it. Not even the collapse of Ukraine can dent it now, since that was "Biden's project"

Hate to say it, but the DNC won a firm generational victory

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[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Baseless doomerism imo

last holdouts of the post-2016 nascent left movement

I can see why you’d view it that way what with Bush and Bowman’s losses, but one losing season in one electoral arena doesn’t mean that people will go back to being fine with $50k surgeries. This wasn’t on the level of, say, the coordinated Nixon era COINTELPRO campaigns that snuffed out the New Left. There’s still a lot of local and state-level DSA wins, and the orgs that didn’t burn themselves out after the initial post-bernie/covid/blm surge in activity are as strong as ever afaik

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

There’s still a lot of local and state-level DSA wins

Two of the five federal DSA endorsees for Federal office are now gone and there’s what only 50+ DSA state officials spread out over fifty states, for a country this size that is the definition of a holdout

Come on don't hand me copium and then call me a doomer for storing it in the cope closet