10. Dem pols ritually denounce base because they are a comprador party, transactionally balancing finance capital with popular support.
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11. Art of being a Democratic politician is to energize enough of population to win vote but not offer too much so not to alienate capital.
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12. But with Dems now out of power, there's freedom for a much more aggressive politics (being in opposition allows that).
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13. As usual for Dems, the Resistance is a motley coalition: predominately suburban women (Hillary's base & engine of most social movements)
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14. As Theda Skocpol has demonstrated, middle class women have been driving force for most social movement, including on the right.
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15. By all reporting, many of the new Suburban Warriors on left are newly politicized & forming social networks: a potent force emerging
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16. The act of going to protests & town halls makes politics visible, puts people in contact with each other. The seedbed for more activism
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17. Social media making it easier for newly formed activists to find each other (here the Sanders movement was important pioneer).
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18. Sanders also showed how far you can go with small funding (something Obama also pioneered).
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19. So Resistance, already a formidable force, has potential to be something lasting: an energized base & also counterweight to big donors
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20. In the short run, resistance runs into the wall of GOP controlling congress. But protests still have a role.
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21. Protests make politics visible. Much of politics is opaque: lobbying, arcane laws, back-room deals. Protests are politics you can see.
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22. Protests make politics visible: task for Resistance is to make visible anger over Trumpcare, over Russian story (& cover-up), climate
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