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This article lacks material analysis. Fascism is on the rise because it is the tool that capitalists use when workers gain class consciousness and start to demand more equality. The second Bernie became popular, a backlash like this was inevitable.
? It's based on a report that was just released. It examines and critiques real life examples of mistakes within the previous administration. Building a More Effective, Responsive Government: Lessons Learned from the Biden-Harris Administration
Not standing up for the values that are supposed to be at the party's roots, and acknowledging that doing the most basic wasn't enough to lead the country where it needed to go, seems like a pretty perfect summary of why most people dislike establishment Democrats.
No the second we became ok with normalizing executive overreach, ignoring checks and balances, and unilateral decisions by the president, it was inevitable. It's not a backlash when every president in modern history basically paved the way for it to happen.
Material analysis is not so much concerned with the actions of individuals or even entire administrations. It is more so a lens to view an entire society. When I say that the backlash was inevitable, I am talking about the rise of fascism generally, not just the rise of Trump. So yes, the policies of previous politicians did “pave the way” for Trump, but that didn’t happen in a vacuum. It happened because the capitalist rulers saw that their position was at risk, so they exerted pressure to consolidate more power (i.e. fascism).
I dont think it was bernie that lit the fuse, i think it was having a black man as president. It made so many people unreasonably angry, they just couldnt accept it. Thats when the temperature started rising.
i'd argue it was more having the first black president running on a campaign of HOPE AND CHANGE
then...doing absolutely fuck all but furthering the status quo, completely unjustified warmongering, unsustainable ratfucking etc.
A material analysis of Bernie Sanders would rule out a backlash because he's never held power or set policy.
But even if you rate effectiveness by how much they aggravate the right, politicians like Pelosi prove that being effective is more threatening than being left. Politicians like Obama prove that being black is more threatening than being radical.
I think you'll find Bernie Sanders rates far higher in MAGA circles than Pelosi or Obama. Because he doesn't represent any threat to them. (check out his defense of Trump's immigration policy)
Reactionaries don't need the actual existence of revolutionary power to pull the fascist card, they just need the threat of it. I use Bernie as an example of rising class consciousness, not because he is some Great Man who is the epicenter of history.