That’s exactly the problem, he shouldn’t be merely fiddling the knobs of the system to make it slightly less horrible he should be advocating for demolishing it and building a new one.

While I agree they should be dismantled This is not what any mainstream politician will do, anyone who will be elected in current American politics will be a reformist. I personally believe that we SHOULD be criticizing him and the other DSA candidates AS SOCIALISTS and not simply hand wave criticism away because they won’t simply attempt to abolish the police on their first day as Mayor. So while I criticize people like Tlaib, Omar, Mamdani, AOC as socialists it does not mean that their reformist views are completely lost on me… Of course I’d rather have a million Ilhan Omars and Mamdanis instead of McCarthys… however not being McCarty does not absolve them and does not make them socialist… I hope I’m clear