A Bernie-style campaign could aim to build lasting infrastructure beyond the election

Evidence

If the campaign was conceived from the outset as being not about 2024 but about what 2024 will leave behind, many would see it differently: it would be about committing to the establishment of a sustainable left-wing counterweight to the duopoly, rather than just another quixotic attempt from within a party of capital. The question remains. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 325

Categorization

• SEED: Frames the ‘campaign as institution-building’ idea — the unresolved question of the chapter.
• XREF: connects to: Bernie’s organizational independence came from lacking any party machine to rely on — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 322; Electoral campaigns are too fleeting to sustain political unselfing — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 1093

Broader Connections

• Electoral campaigns are too fleeting to sustain political unselfing #responds-to (0.85) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1093