Important, compelling insights offered by @RossBarkan, esp. his discussion on foreign policy and the left — foreign policy is consistently among the most useful spaces to discern progressive values from mere gestures toward progressivism. https://twitter.com/rossbarkan/status/1291036833208467462

What I mean: you can't be truly anti-war without being anti-imperialist. Clay voted for Omar's amendment (Afghanistan withdrawal) but still supported the NDAA after it failed.

This is a theme: he's voted for anti-war amendments, but also for every one of Trump's military budgets

As @RossBarkan writes, @CoriBush was willing to take on the military-industrial complex. This is what we need, and what most progressives miss (hopefully not on purpose).

(For a more in-depth analysis: https://stephensemler.substack.com/p/congressional-war-powers-and-iran)

So I guess it's on us (leftists in foreign policy) to make foreign policy matter as much electorally as it does in reality.

Not trying to display some hip self-awareness here, just grasping at a meaningful way to wrap this thread up and plug my think tank ( @security_reform)./END