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The last 5 years saw Bernie's 2 credible runs for president and the parallel, closely tied rise of a left media ecosystem. AOC is ideally positioned to be Bernie's heir, the leader of the left electoral project. But parts of the left media ecosystem are now rejecting that project
I have not, to be clear, though I understand the despair. But that's what's really going on with this Dore/M4A debate (the specifics of which are ludicrous). This is about two very different sides of Bernie's legacy coming into clearer focus.
I do think some in the other camp should say louder what I think a lot of them quietly think, which is that in hindsight, they've rejected Bernie and most of what he accomplished in the past and stands for in the present.
Bernie created a big tent that encompassed a few distinct tendencies:
-progressive Dems fed up with the party's status quo
-committed doctrinaire leftists otherwise skeptical of electoral politics
-disaffected non-ideological voters
-miscellaneous opportunists/grifters
-progressive Dems fed up with the party's status quo
-committed doctrinaire leftists otherwise skeptical of electoral politics
-disaffected non-ideological voters
-miscellaneous opportunists/grifters
And while all of these tendencies are going to continue to exist, it's not clear that anyone else, including Bernie himself since he's very much still around, is going to unite them in common purpose again anytime soon.
