DSA (and these people on the podcast in particular) are kind of good at winning Democratic primaries. After that everything falls apart though.
Time for them the dig in and level up and win the whole thing. They did pull through for AOC tbf.
The harder they fight, the more they learn, even if the lesson is "we need to stop focusing so hard on electoralism".
I think there's a certain amount of hopelessness in our community that comes from historical knowledge of how these things tend to go. The thing for me is that I do hope we can just vote socialism in, even though I know it doesn't work that way. I think that gets lost sometimes that it would still be a good thing if Americans could just vote Lenin 2.0 to be the president of the United States.
Read Anthem by Ayn Rand lol