To win on social issues, the Left has to develop the cultural competence to connect progressive goals with working-class priorities. The gay marriage fight offers a formula for appealing to ordinary Americans’ values without giving up on social progress.
What a terrible article. Repeat after me: “The Democrats are not the left. Most Washington Democrats are corporate centrists.”
If the author can’t understand that basic point, who would believe them about anything else? … And hey, you can have your own definitions, no worries, but after 2016 and 2024, you damn well oughtta be able to see that the Dems don’t represent tens of millions of us.
Bro, they’re writing in Jacobin, they know what the left is, and the difference between being on a national left and being a leftist.
Right its jacobin lmao cant have shit here