In the wake of Bernie leaving the race, the left will be divided between 3 interpretations:

1. Bernie should have been more antagonistic
2. Bernie should have been less antagonistic
3. There's no correct strategy, the entire game is rigged

A thread 1/

Everything is over-determined; each of these contains a truth.

But analysis should begin from structure before diagnosing tactics: given everything we believe as *socialists* it was improbable that a socialist would win the presidency absent massive popular organization 2/

We threatened establishment & ruling class because we were achieving the improbable: engaging millions of multiracial working class without a substrate of previously organized social bases, on extremely asymmetric terrain.

We should ask: how did the campaign do so well? 3/

These are the starting points for analysis: the structural obstacles and the improbable achievements despite them.

As we enter into the next round of struggles, we must replicate and deepen these achievements. Our socialist movement should look more like the bases of #NotMeUS