They’ve had so much help from all corners of the American Establishment. It doesn’t take much when you literally face no opposition from anyone with enough power to, if not stop you, at least slow you down.
Mainstream Democrats shun the left because the left proves over and over to be a totally unreliable ally, whose rhetoric and actions do more to sabotage Democratic electoral efforts than to help them.
Because it’s a losing message. Turns out the majority of White Americans aren’t the “give me liberty or give me death” freedom fighters they always claimed to be.
Read this story lede again. And then ask yourself if you can think of any reason why long-time subscribers like myself stopped and have no intention of ever giving you a single fucking dime.