Presumptively assuming Lenin will be wrong usually doesn’t end well
If you volunteer for the campaign enough you can def recommend some merch ideas and it will be considered. Just saying
There are a million cowboy Zohrans for those with eyes to see them
There has been discussion on detainment long before today’s Trump statement on denaturalization and deportation of Zohran
Both DSA members and both in the past 40 years
I worked on the campaign and can tell you with certainty that he has been prepared for resistance and ratfuckery all of the way
The answer to your question, which I’ll get more into when I do a retrospective, is knowing we had NYC DSA in our proximity and would have enthusiastic people ready to do a lot of legwork for the campaign. It was a huge part of the calculus.
As for making them red volunteers, I bet quite a few would
Forgotten passwords and such
That’s called growth, comrade.
I’ll still shill for AOC on occasion. She has a purpose in our movement whether we like it all of the time or not
It’ll be better when she’s a senator or governor, I think
People do not understand just how much he has ALWAYS been about this. He really is that guy and he deeply cares
Don’t sweat it too much. Only a handful of canvassers were getting paid (less than 100 out of 50000 if I had to estimate) and it was mostly to have people on staff who were fluent in one or more of the rarer languages found around the city to reach enclaves of particular language speakers that were hard to find regular volunteers for.
If that does describe you though, keep your eyes posted around the second half of this month. Some new positions like that should be opening up. It’s pretty much all assessment and drafting up strategy for the time being.