Bernie bros gotta step up their game. We completed our hostile takeover in like six months. It's been like two years. Winning control of a state party in a state where Democrats tend to be more liberal isn't that big of an accomplishment.
You primaried some congressmen - we're taking over the organs of candidate recruitment.
I'm going to hazard a guess that prog-populism is going to doing a heckuva lot better in 2022 than TEA Partyism is doing in 2016
Uh, who needs the party apparatus when the grassroots can remove and install their own choices? In the GOP, that has been the norm for years. In 2013, as a young Ron Paul supporter who just worked on a losing campaign, I was very excited by the ME GOP's Ron Paul faction trying to launch a national challenge to Priebus. It failed. It wasn't even a spark in the pan-the gunpowder never went off, the musket simply didn't fire. Three years later, another outsider running on a relatively paleoconservative platform managed to win the nomination despite
sixteen other candidates, the
entire media (aside from Fox News, which conveniently went from being anti-Trump to being pro-Trump on Inauguration Day), the intelligence services, and the largest political juggernaut ever assembled in American history. He won. The rest lost.
Plus, the Ron Paul movement successfully took the Iowa GOP in a much more divisive and hostile setting (without resorting to throwing chairs, I may add). It didn't last, of course, and neither will this when the Democrats decide a Booker/Castro ticket of milquetoast Clinton-esque liberalism take over the party and people like Morgan Carroll back them enthusiastically.