This is a time of crisis, and both the Squad specifically and the American progressive movement in general are letting a good crisis good to waste
What would you recommend they do? And how would they go about doing that within the strictures of a two-party system where one is fascist and the other is captured?
Drum up support for protests, boycotts, strikes and other forms of resistance. They—or anyone else trying to lead the American progressive movement now—have to understand that they’re leading a resistance movement, not a political movement. The battlefield ceased to be Washington in January; now it’s the hearts and minds of people and, most importantly, the streets. Bernie, if he’s interested leading the movement (which I doubt), should be linking up with local and state-level progressive movements and cooperating with them to organize a nationwide resistance effort, not try to pour progressive energy into a system that has already failed them. This resistance effort can then be reorganized into a third party and knock the democrats out of the competition with the legitimacy it’ll gain from being the resistance that toppled Trump’s regime. This is a time where the GOP is only concerned with their third of the population and the DNC has almost completely lost legitimacy in the eyes of the other two thirds; there is no reason to operate within the system. If the GOP plays a “good game of chess”, then the progressive movement should take a sledgehammer to the chess board.
What would you recommend they do? And how would they go about doing that within the strictures of a two-party system where one is fascist and the other is captured?
Drum up support for protests, boycotts, strikes and other forms of resistance. They—or anyone else trying to lead the American progressive movement now—have to understand that they’re leading a resistance movement, not a political movement. The battlefield ceased to be Washington in January; now it’s the hearts and minds of people and, most importantly, the streets. Bernie, if he’s interested leading the movement (which I doubt), should be linking up with local and state-level progressive movements and cooperating with them to organize a nationwide resistance effort, not try to pour progressive energy into a system that has already failed them. This resistance effort can then be reorganized into a third party and knock the democrats out of the competition with the legitimacy it’ll gain from being the resistance that toppled Trump’s regime. This is a time where the GOP is only concerned with their third of the population and the DNC has almost completely lost legitimacy in the eyes of the other two thirds; there is no reason to operate within the system. If the GOP plays a “good game of chess”, then the progressive movement should take a sledgehammer to the chess board.
This, 100 fucking %.