A project of common interest to liberals and leftists alike over the coming years should be to grapple with the problem of ~35-40% of Americans being ok with fascism. Not in a JD Vance "we have to understand them" way, but in a "we have to minimize their power at all costs" way.

For liberals this starts with recognizing that Trump is the symptom, not the disease. Getting him out of the White House was the *first* step. For leftists this starts with recognizing that the Democratic Party is not, in fact, the worst thing that has ever happened to the world.

No, the structure of our country is such that the Democrats will necessarily be the main vehicle of antifascism. That's the reality. So we've got to make the party into that, rather than rejecting the party as irredeemably complicit. https://twitter.com/actuallyalice/status/1324744459238690824

The fact is, we can't argue about the extend of Medicaid expansion or about student loan debt repayment schedules if we have to fend off the collapse of democracy every couple decades. We need to win that latter fight to have the former ones.

lol the number of repliers that have taken it upon themselves to say "yes but is it not the case that the true problem is the Democratic Party"