I think you're missing a key class. It's not just the progressives driving Democratic policy leftward. In fact, the Outsider Left is almost as progressive but much more racially diverse and significantly more skeptical of government. It makes up almost 10% of the electorate and anecdotally has pushed policy significantly further left, in…
I think you're missing a key class. It's not just the progressives driving Democratic policy leftward. In fact, the Outsider Left is almost as progressive but much more racially diverse and significantly more skeptical of government. It makes up almost 10% of the electorate and anecdotally has pushed policy significantly further left, including originating defunding for the police: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/11/09/outsider-left/
These are the young anarchists and left-libertarian anti-capitalists and they are also quite important to the leftward shift but don't fit other aspects of your thesis. I'm not saying you're wrong but i think the piece would make more sense if you had addressed this group
That is totally fair. The anarchists were the ones supporting the takeover of public places in 2020 and served as a kind of police force for BLM. I will explore this group more later on. Nellie Bowles’s book details this dynamic also, I recommend it.
I think you're missing a key class. It's not just the progressives driving Democratic policy leftward. In fact, the Outsider Left is almost as progressive but much more racially diverse and significantly more skeptical of government. It makes up almost 10% of the electorate and anecdotally has pushed policy significantly further left, including originating defunding for the police: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/11/09/outsider-left/
These are the young anarchists and left-libertarian anti-capitalists and they are also quite important to the leftward shift but don't fit other aspects of your thesis. I'm not saying you're wrong but i think the piece would make more sense if you had addressed this group
That is totally fair. The anarchists were the ones supporting the takeover of public places in 2020 and served as a kind of police force for BLM. I will explore this group more later on. Nellie Bowles’s book details this dynamic also, I recommend it.
Yes! Just caught her interview on Free Press. Loved it.