>>157085>Somehow the Right managed to turn Gamergate into a Great Replacement issue and pushed Trump into the whitehouse purely off the energy of mad gamers scared transgender feminists will take their games away.What year are you writing this from? It was never true.
In 2016 Trump got like 3 million fewer votes
than Hillary Clinton and it was still mostly just the usual GOP voters and a some people in the rust belt and elsewhere who switched from D to R because of actual economic issues.
In 2024, Gamergate was less than irrelevant and Trump was running against a genocidal man with visible dementia and a shit economy, and then the DNC switched him out for someone with the exact same policies who had helped cover up Biden's senility.
I agree with most of the rest of your post, so maybe it's silly of me to quibble with that one bit.
The right does have institutional support, and that's a major fact in how the left got fucked up so hard, but it's also not a good excuse either. None of those things are good excuses. For as stacked as things are against the left (and getting worse all the time), the left could be doing a thousand times better than it is if American leftists were willing to take risks. I think there's also something to be said for how often people who see themselves as being on America's left… still fall into the trap of getting bogged down in stupid culture war issues. Culturally, some people are more "socially liberal" or "socially conservative"… but neither of those things is
class politics, so trying to condition participation in the entire workers' movement on unanimous agreements about that stuff is obviously a bad idea and a distraction.
The American left desperately needs to take drastic action now and stop being so complacent and cowardly.