Sean McElwee is a craven opportunist who cares more about power than goals. The entire reason he stopped talking about abolishing ICE is not because it wasn’t popular, but because his first choice candidate Elizabeth Warren didn’t support it, and his own use of the hashtag disappeared after that was confirmed. AOC sometimes gets similar flack from the left for her willingness to talk and make nice with power brokers, but she’s consistently stayed true to her beliefs and isn’t afraid to speak candidly in ways that aren’t phrased in the usual intersectional word salad deployed by so many woke darlings.
It is one thing to talk to somebody like Biden or Pelosi and urge them to come closer to your side. It is another thing to do that while consistently running interference for those same people and discouraging actual leftists from participating.
Sean McElwee is a craven opportunist who cares more about power than goals. The entire reason he stopped talking about abolishing ICE is not because it wasn’t popular, but because his first choice candidate Elizabeth Warren didn’t support it, and his own use of the hashtag disappeared after that was confirmed. AOC sometimes gets similar flack from the left for her willingness to talk and make nice with power brokers, but she’s consistently stayed true to her beliefs and isn’t afraid to speak candidly in ways that aren’t phrased in the usual intersectional word salad deployed by so many woke darlings.
It is one thing to talk to somebody like Biden or Pelosi and urge them to come closer to your side. It is another thing to do that while consistently running interference for those same people and discouraging actual leftists from participating.