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On the morning after Super Tuesday, Jacobin/DSA heavyweights Dustin Guastella and Connor Kilpatrick proclaimed “After the Nevada Blowout, It’s Bernie’s Party Now.” Even before reality crashed their party in South Carolina, Texas, Minnesota and elsewhere a week later, I deemed their triumphalism a bit premature. Before enumerating the powerful institutions that gird the longest still-functioning capitalist party in the world, I wrote that “it is pretty obvious that the Democratic Party is not an empty shell. Even if most people continue to vote for Bernie Sanders up until the convention, they have no other relationship to him except as an endorser.” It turned out that I was perhaps a bit swayed by the impressive victory in Nevada in failing to warn the democratic socialist comrades that the Nevada vote might have been an outlier.
full: https://louisproyect.org/2020/03/09/the-twilight-of-the-political-revolution/
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