Cornel West has a compelling message. Instead of running a third-party campaign most voters won’t notice, he should grab the spotlight by challenging Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination.
I’m no doomer, but realistically, I think the best the left can hope for in 2024 is a vocal challenge from outside the DNC as any challenge from within would surely be muffled. In 2028, I’m all for a hostile takover FWIW.
yeah, i’m hoping in the 4 years between now and 2028 someone on the broader “left” is truly able to take the mantle from Bernie and become the front for all of the stuff he’s been talking about–and in between that time the broader left is able to build up unions and connections within the unions so there’s some sort of apparatus that can be tapped into by a candidate in 2028.
i’m also not under any pretenses that electoralism is the be-all-end-all, but right now it’s the reason there’s a broader American left worth thinking about. even if we wanted to mostly or entirely abandon electoralism (and i don’t think it’d be good to abandon that domain entirely, personally) we just don’t have influence outside of the electoral arena like we do within it–and we don’t have much electoral influence to begin with!
yeah, i’m hoping in the 4 years between now and 2028 someone on the broader “left” is truly able to take the mantle from Bernie and become the front for all of the stuff he’s been talking about–and in between that time the broader left is able to build up unions and connections within the unions so there’s some sort of apparatus that can be tapped into by a candidate in 2028.
i’m also not under any pretenses that electoralism is the be-all-end-all, but right now it’s the reason there’s a broader American left worth thinking about. even if we wanted to mostly or entirely abandon electoralism (and i don’t think it’d be good to abandon that domain entirely, personally) we just don’t have influence outside of the electoral arena like we do within it–and we don’t have much electoral influence to begin with!