JF

My disagreements with this short, well-written, insightful piece: I think the left is doing fine, and I don't think the Democrats are severed from the working class (who of course still mostly vote Democratic) - what's failed is the dream of linking the left and the working classhttps://twitter.com/nukebarbarian/status/1294006479570182144 …

How is the left doing fine if it’s not connected to the working class?

If you want a left that's for the working class, in my opinion you're (we're) out of luck for the moment. But if you want a left that's for calling out privilege, you're maybe in a quite good situation - they don't need the working class, they have the social media kids

It depends on what you mean by "need." They might not need the working class to maintain power but they do need it to maintain a viable electoral coalition. The problem comes in when people realize what it means to maintain power without the vote.

What does it mean?

It's the end of state legitimacy. We've built up law around the idea that the popular will should restrain the actions of the government in limited ways. When the interests of a major party are incompatible with that baseline assumption, its survival is antagonistic to democracy.

The second a critical mass of people see a constitutional crisis coming is the second it starts. The DNC's only option is to build enough of its preferred type of extralegal coercive power before enough people catch on.