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Posted by Paul Street on FB:
Next neat reflection on midterms...As Nick Brana, the former Sanders
staffer who heads the Movement for a People’s Party, noted one day after
the elections, the results are “a serious wake-up call for progressives”
who continue to dream of gaining power by taking over the Democratic
Party. By Brana’s account:
“The four leading progressive organizations that emerged from Bernie
Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign endorsed Democratic candidates
across 46 states. Nearly all of the candidates for Congress, governor,
lieutenant governor, and Senate lost….Our Revolution, Justice Democrats,
Brand New Congress and the Democratic Socialists of America endorsed a
combined 107 candidates for Congress this year. Forty-four of them won
their primaries and only 12 won their general elections. Five of those
12 were already incumbents. Five more of them were longtime party
politicians in line for higher office, rather than insurgent candidates.
Only two of them were actually opposed by the party and unseated
establishment Democrats in the primaries — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and
Ayanna Pressley. There are 435 members of Congress.”
“Almost every candidate those groups endorsed for governor, lieutenant
governor, and Senate, lost in the primary or the general election. That
includes 13 candidates for governor, five candidates for lt. governor,
and seven candidates for U.S. Senate. Incumbents Bernie Sanders and
David Zuckerman were the only ones who won. Several candidates were
high-profile individuals who raised millions of dollars: progressives
such as Ben Jealous, Cynthia Nixon and Abdul El-Sayed. Others such as
Andrew Gillum and Stacy Abrams took millions from big donors.”
“As a result, the blue wave is a corporate wave that has swept in the
same kind of Democratic politicians that drove working people into
Donald Trump’s arms after eight years of Obama. When Democrats busy
themselves serving the wealthy again, the result will be an even sharper
lurch to the authoritarian right.
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