The Two Sides of the Anti-Bernie Left
A light has been turned on in the darkness. Let’s shelve the undergraduate theses and social media invective and see where it can lead us.
Bernie Sanders
Moral Minoritarianism from the Ashes of Left Populism
From its initial task of rethinking mobilization for an age of demobilization, the aim of the remaining Left populists will be to manage mobilization in an age of potential remobilization.
Render unto Ourselves, What is Ours—or Caesar Will Seize It
The political purpose of antifascism in the 21st century is not to stop the Right. It’s to discipline the Left.
Applied Roganism
Politics for most people is a means to an end. If we fail to highlight solidarity and shared material interests over ideological purity or identity, we will fail to transform the abstract support of disaffected voters into actual engagement.
“Political Realism” is Ideology
I fear that 2020 will teach the Democrats a costly lesson about the dangers of getting swept up in ideological movements distinguished more by political realism than enthusiasm.
