If there had been mass national demonstrators protesting Jan 6 in the ensuing days it might have been pressured elected officials to act decisively on the impeachment and removal of Trump, but there was no counter-mobilization because there's no organized Left
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Basically only one politician shares Léon Blum's synthesis of socialism and democratic-republican ideals, Bernie Sanders. He has a loosely associated movement not a disciplined Socialist party behind him and vocal parts of that movement dont share his beliefs about politics
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Replying to @lionel_trolling
Arguably more Debs’s synthesis? But also not sure why failure to organize protest for a liberal remedy is demonstrative of a disorganized left (which of course is disorganized) as much as a disorganized liberalism and Democratic Party rank and file
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i think this points to the difference i am hinting at. the french left viewed itself as just as much the inheritor and protector of the republican and revolutionary tradition as liberals
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Or quite possibly the left sees the liberal remedies as not being enough (and/or in some instances being the wrong or shortsighted remedies) to protect the republican tradition
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sure but then then that just ends up ceding everything to proceduralism and administration
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I don't know holding mass rallies for a constitutional procedure also seems like ceding a lot of politics to a proceduralism
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Also not to go in a different direction but while there are a lot of differences between French and American lefts a commitment to the republican tradition is something they have in common, especially when we compare apples to apples
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Admittedly republicanism in France in general is more pronounced but both had popular fronts that invoked the republican tradition in the 30s and both had early 20th c socialist parties that deployed the vocabulary of republicanism to critique capitalism and defend its politics
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i agree, that tradition might be dead in both places now
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There's a real Owl of Minerva thing in how the republican tradition waned in USA at the moment (1950s/1960s) when academic historians started naming and studying it in earnest.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @lionel_trolling
Kind of like the welcome (if markedly late) arrival of histories on the US left in the 1970s and 80s
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