Jeet Heer
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4d ago
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They hold lectures.
You have dances.
This is where you get...
They are actually people that can go out and talk to voters.
And you have like, you know, not people who are like paid 25 bucks an hour to spread the message.
But people are like actually like believe in this.
And like that is invaluable.
Right.
And so the hollowing out of the parties has made them susceptible to takeover.
And in the case of the Democrats, I mean, I think that the establishment Democrats have a big problem in the sense that, like, they don't know how to organize.
They know how to, like, Biden ads.
They know how to, like, and in the presidential elections, they can actually get volunteers for phone banks because people hate Trump and don't want the Republicans.
But still, they don't have, like, that sort of, like, actual functioning political machine.
Yeah.
The historical analogies would be the period where that organizational energy came from things like the black churches, which, as I indicated, have been fraying a bit, and also the unions, which have also tremendously frayed.
But back in the day, America got the New Deal and the Great Society because you had that sort of organizational discipline
from the black churches and from the labor unions and from similar groups.
The DSA is the 21st century equivalent of that.
And Mamdani, because he is, you know, one being the mayor of New York and is now more popular than ever, you know, has had a really good, like, you know, first year.
You know, he is undeniably that.
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