excerpt - Ezra Levin, cofounder of Indivisible, a grassroots movement <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/25/indivisible-donald-trump-progressive-movement> behind the nationwide No Kings demonstrations <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/28/no-kings-protests-trump> against Trump, said: “Despite our advocacy, despite organising three of the largest protests in American history, what we saw was a Democratic establishment that too often was in freeze mode, or appeasement mode, or in feigning resistance, or engaging in the aesthetics of opposition, while simultaneously engaging in status quo politics.
“The results of that are understandable primary challenges from people who want to see a Democratic party that fights, that isn’t beholden to special interests or to corporate money, and want … an actual opposition party in this country. For Democratic party leadership, this result was entirely avoidable. They’re reaping what they sowed.” *https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/28/mamdani-democratic-socialist-2028-election <https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/28/mamdani-democratic-socialist-2028-election>* This move left can eventually break apart the Democrats and lead to a new party that would be truly left/anti-corporate, much as the growing opposition to slavery broke apart the Whigs in the 1850s, paving the way for a new party that would uncompromisingly oppose the slave power - the Republicans. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#42223): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/42223 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/120024920/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
