JF

Her political capital as a radical progressive.

She could absolutely have endorsed Warren and retained much of that. She half did anyway.

AOC doesn’t need DSA. They have no power over her.

You're missing the point. The point is that Sanders had overwhelming power, and the DSA is just one of the innumerable levers. But if we so much as even entertain (much less accept) the idea that he had little leverage over a ppl like AOC, then he has ZERO business in politics.

ya, i'm definitely coming around to that last part

But that's absurd! (not trying to be flippant, I really think it's completely absurd)

watching this whole thing play out, it's the same welfare liberal story that's played out over and over, losing democrat primaries. there may be a social base for it, but it doesn't fuckin' vote!

I think the social democratic (or socialist) objective would have been to split the Democratic Party. Sanders' goal was to push the existing party "left", perhaps with a minor, mostly generational change in personnel. Both a plausible goals. He and his circle chose the latter...