Progressive Politics

What example of the DSA having power and refusing to use it are you referring to? I would not say any single candidate that came from the DSA being elected and captured by the Democratic party is an example of the organization.

The idea that a candidate like Mamdani will not "play ball" once elected to do everything they can to get the bare minimum of their policy implemented is silly. No one with a brain isn't expecting this. His goal is some form of positive material changes for those he represents. The point is to associate the left with material changes that improve people's lives. That's all electoral politics under a bourgeoise dictatorship will ever be.

For someone that should understand the limitations of electoral politics under a "liberal democracy" (something BE should know) he is absolutely obsessed with only looking at American leftist through that lense.

And it's just the result of him being a content creator. He is focused, ironically, on the liberal idea of activism because that's the view that most Americans (even so called leftist) view the lense of change from. Which is just not Marxist in its analysis in the slightest. Which is not something I think BE has ever claimed to be. But he seems to have captured a group of leftist that seem to think he is.