Every socialist critic of DSA’s electoral program HAS to reconcile that no alternative offered by the left is proving more successful. If your orientation is only to criticize from the sidelines or hope to collect disaffected radicals you’re already lost
DSA ran and won a white guy against a woman of color in a 70% non-white district - turns out people care about your substance & politics more than your skin color
Identity politics found dead in a ditch!
@transjawnder They're all very layered though, if someone eg had just been cheated on I would probably emphasize the anxiety aspect of it, but in pre-election jitters the "waking from the nightmare" version seemed right
My phone was basically dead all night bc I was out until polls closed, but I'm just so proud of what we pulled off. Of course none of this happens without Zohran, but this feels like an even bigger deal because not every candidate who won was a Zohran, NYC-DSA did this!!
@sadreturns Haha I think it was watching Paul Rudd make this idealized avatar of himself dance as a kind of "work." It's loose, but when I write something I'm seeing it everywhere