One of the smartest things coming out of the leftist/social dem/dem soc faction of the Democratic Party is that the *practicing politicians* themselves, Bernie/AOC/Omar—vilified by the right, adored (mostly) by the twitter left—understand how important **party partisanship** is. https://twitter.com/ilhanmn/status/1357812670662119426

The most self-canceling sectarianism on here are leftist intellectuals looking to figure out way that the centrist leadership of Democratic Party will fulfill their prophesies of failures, rather than encouraging it when it does good (as Omar does here) and criticizing when it

doesn’t (Nope—don’t even think about appointing Rahm and or Sunstein and, if you do, you will get rightly trashed.) But to do that, you actually have to think this complicated political organism is the vehicle for change, like it or not, and best move is to join that fight.

You can’t obtain hegemony in any organization that *you hate.* The people who don’t hate—which is most of them, very much including the rank and file—will never let you run because they can see your contempt. You point the organization to its highest aspirations, and fight hard

against party reactionaries. Splits are historically imaginable and sometimes essential—see, of course, the CIO vs AFL—but US two party duopoly makes that harder to do in electoral politics vs. union politics. And low baseline of US social democracy leaves plenty of room upward.