JF

The problem for me is I’ve never heard anyone articulate a particularly plausible strategy for exiting from duopoly.

You can argue, as some have, that populist energy should shift to organizing within the Republican Party, but I actually think we are still a long ways away from economic populism gaining a foothold there.

i'm not suggesting i know any better, or that i have an answer. but reforming the DP is not something i can see. it just doesn't seem plausible.

to me, that would mean turning it on its head. it's expressly designed to prevent that happening.

Yes, exactly. I hear this all the time, “you can’t reform the party.” But if you had enough working class power to win with a 3rd party (which you don’t), you would also have enough power not to “reform” the DP but essentially to force a hostile takeover.

What I see from third partyists seems to be more of a way of simply reassigning blame. You can tell yourself the only reason people are flocking to your organization is because of Bernie shepherding them into the Democratic Party.