I think a lot of Sean's analysis and a lot of the analysis of Sean's analysis ignores where policies originate and are popularized.

Pundits still give him credit for #AbolishICE, a policy originated by those most hurt by them, but @other98 really spread the message.

Everyone thinks their tweet is going to become a policy, but policies are more complicated than that, and everyone who has ever been involved in a successful policy KNOWS this, but no one is saying it because it took 2 tweets for me to explain it.

The discourse around Sean has harmed the phrase "coalition politics" - we need coalitions to be successful at politics. What that coalition looks like differs from situation to situation. Old adage of no perm no perm enemies only perm issues, ya know?

O98 had ~8.99M fb shares in the month(ish) that they had #AbolishICE as their facebook profile picture. That's probably over 40 million people seeing the message.

Democrats understand they won't always be a part of a coalition, which is why you win your policies at somewhere else. You force the party to take on it. This is basic shit and I don't know why I'm wasting my time talking about it.

I think that most of the very online and thinker left doesn't want to lift up our successes to thoroughly explain this. I don't know why. I guess because they individually weren't as big a part of it?