That is why I said in the long run. Temporary support for Newsom, Pritzker etc is fine as they were some of the first Democrats to find a spine. But as soon as the Trump cancer is cleared (being optimistic here), an actual left opposition has to be built in the USA (and the rest of the Western world)
This is why the Right keeps getting stronger and stronger and the Left keeps failing.
Back in the day, guy named Jerry Falwell came up with a simple plan to become a power broker. He had a bunch of churches behind him and he gave them their marching orders. If twenty people showed up at the local GOP club for the monthly meetings, his ‘Moral Majority’ would show up with fifty. They grabbed up little jobs like county clerk in towns you never heard of, but every year they had more and more power. eventually they were on top.
Meanwhile, you’re still blinding yourself with the idea of “an actual Left opposition.”
Here’s another tidbit for you to chew on. Back in 1860, escaped slave Frederick Douglas decided not to support the candidate who promised to back abolition. He went with Lincoln, because Douglas figured that a leader who won the election and was willing to listen was better than a committed candidate who was out of power.
That is why I said in the long run. Temporary support for Newsom, Pritzker etc is fine as they were some of the first Democrats to find a spine. But as soon as the Trump cancer is cleared (being optimistic here), an actual left opposition has to be built in the USA (and the rest of the Western world)
This is why the Right keeps getting stronger and stronger and the Left keeps failing.
Back in the day, guy named Jerry Falwell came up with a simple plan to become a power broker. He had a bunch of churches behind him and he gave them their marching orders. If twenty people showed up at the local GOP club for the monthly meetings, his ‘Moral Majority’ would show up with fifty. They grabbed up little jobs like county clerk in towns you never heard of, but every year they had more and more power. eventually they were on top.
Meanwhile, you’re still blinding yourself with the idea of “an actual Left opposition.”
Here’s another tidbit for you to chew on. Back in 1860, escaped slave Frederick Douglas decided not to support the candidate who promised to back abolition. He went with Lincoln, because Douglas figured that a leader who won the election and was willing to listen was better than a committed candidate who was out of power.