“I think we can conclude that the Democratic Party is simply unable to serve as an institutional vehicle for serious struggles for truth and justice. That’s the conclusion right now I think we have to draw” https://jacobinmag.com/2020/12/cornel-west-interview-bernie-black-lives-matter

“The neoliberal versions of identity politics are exactly what Brother Adolph Reed has taught us for the last thirty years; it’s a form of class politics. And if we don’t understand that, we fall right in the trap of what we underwent with Barack Obama”

“And unfortunately, we on the Left, we’ve tried with every fiber of our being to provide some alternative to the rot in the neoliberal rule. But we could not pull it off within the context of electoral politics”

“On the streets, meanwhile, we had the largest manifestation of protests in the history of the empire! What impact does that have on the neoliberal rulers in the establishment Democratic Party? Just small little symbolic decorative changes”

“— “put on a little Kente cloth and bring in some more black people and brown people in the name of diversity, and inclusion, and equity.”

“Rahm Emanuel is saying, “This is the year of the Biden Republican.” Oh please, that’s like looking for the number of black people in the National Hockey League. They spent one billion dollars for one seat.”

I posted these direct quotes from @CornelWest because his was the most accurate “autopsy” of the 2020 Presidential election IMO. Despite the sound & fury of the neoliberal PR machine trying to silence leftists, Dr. West is still speaking truth to power. He’s a national treasure