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    1. Matt Karp  🌹 🦏 🇺🇸‏ @karpmj 22 Sep 2019

      Matt Karp  🌹 🦏 🇺🇸 Retweeted Jeet Heer

      Lol let’s be real. Bernie isn’t the only hope for working class power and movement politics, but Elizabeth Warren’s Teach For America-flavored campaign is where working class power and movement politics go to curl up and diehttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1175835561233399809 …

      Matt Karp  🌹 🦏 🇺🇸 added,

      Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
      Replying to @karpmj
      I don't think it's very Marxist to pin the entire hopes of working class power on the political prospect of one (admittedly admirable) 78-year old man.
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Sep 2019
      Replying to @karpmj

      Genuine left mass movements can thrive in periods of presidents that aren't from the left. FDR was an upper class dilettante who preached deficit cutting, JFK an upper class dilettante Cold Warrior, LBJ a redneck FDR-wannabe.

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        1. Joel Bocko‏ @LostInTheMovies 22 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @karpmj

          Sure but this is a borderline accelerationist argument (especially in LBJ’s case). The point is that thriving on the outside is one thing, gaining direct access to power is another. To survivor the coming decade, the left will need both.

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        1. Michael Youhana‏ @Michael_Youhana 22 Sep 2019
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          LBJ’s presidency saw some left Triumphs, but came at a high cost. Do we really want to repeat the mistakes of the past? We can have a better kind of President

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        2. Matt Karp  🌹 🦏 🇺🇸‏ @karpmj 22 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          look, I wouldn't have been a Seward-or-spoil (?) delegate at Chicago in 1860, either. It's contextual. But I do think the shape of left politics in this moment makes the Sanders/Warren choice a very significant one -- I'm trying to write about it in a longer piece next week

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Sep 2019
          Replying to @karpmj

          Will read the piece with interest. I think the issue is "who is Warren?" She's not a democratic socialist like Sanders but she's not really part of the Clinton-Obama-Biden gestalt either. I feel like Warren's critics haven't quite located her accurately yet.

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        2. Who Decided That?‏ @MCares37 22 Sep 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @karpmj

          FDR went and challenged his own party across the country, Warren is not going to do that, in the midterms she was giving a spirited defense of Joe Manchin

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        1. Darren D'Addario‏ @IamDarrenD 22 Sep 2019
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          Yes, FDR was the balanced-budget candidate. That was pretty much his calling card. Elizabeth Warren is Karl Marx compared to him at the same stage.

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