I’ve mocked the astroturf ‘open the economy’ protests as much as anyone and while it’s true they’re full of nazis, dipshits and religious cranks, its ALSO true dems have failed to fight for a robust social democratic alternative for suffering people so we should still worry...

this message may have some organic normie appeal down the road regardless of how phony their PR scaffolding may be now. I think this was the point that jacobin article was trying to make but did so awkwardly (w/ some odious ‘poor white people forced to become nazis’ framing) but

I DO think dunking on these protests for categorically being bourgeois greedy deplorables without at least acknowledging that the democrats have offered so little by way of an alternative ‘help’ narrative is a bit pat and not terribly productive.