{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "In fairness to Democratic insiders, a Sanders or even Warren nomination would sever the relationship to the donors and pretty...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/611655273687482368/", "html": "<p>In fairness to Democratic insiders, a Sanders or even Warren nomination would sever the relationship to the donors and pretty suddenly <i>end</i> a lot of the left-of-center infrastructure in America, from party structures to para-party structures like think tanks to &ldquo;activist&rdquo; protest/lobby/lawfare/discourse NGOs to pretty neighborhoody service providers/patronage operations</p><p>And even if they won (not obvious!) they couldn&rsquo;t immediately prop up replicas of the Old Left (labor unions? the Catholic Church?? white ethnic pride organizations???) to fill the gap, first time around those had been percolating for decades; New Left institutions were intentionally defunded and tamed in favor of neoliberal/NGO stuff as part of the 80s/90s DLC thing</p>"}