This is a helpful framing; if it’s true that a significant percentage of progressive activists would be willing to “abet a Trump presidency if they don’t get what they want,” do you (or does anyone) see a path to redirecting that absurd behavior? As active participants, they are presumably as familiar with the stated goals of a T presidency as the rest of us. What, if anything, could harness that energy towards a Dem win followed by intense and unrelenting pressure at every level to defeat the corporatist cartel that’s the true enemy of progress? What could possibly encourage the anti-authoritarians to row in the same direction if not bald-faced authoritarian aspirations plainly declared?
This is a helpful framing; if it’s true that a significant percentage of progressive activists would be willing to “abet a Trump presidency if they don’t get what they want,” do you (or does anyone) see a path to redirecting that absurd behavior? As active participants, they are presumably as familiar with the stated goals of a T presidency as the rest of us. What, if anything, could harness that energy towards a Dem win followed by intense and unrelenting pressure at every level to defeat the corporatist cartel that’s the true enemy of progress? What could possibly encourage the anti-authoritarians to row in the same direction if not bald-faced authoritarian aspirations plainly declared?