I don’t see how the soc dem contingent in the democratic party doesn’t moderate hard if/when they start wielding actual power. esp. in foreign policy. bernard brother twitter can agonize over the squad’s leftist bonafides in social and economic justice in the domestic sphere and thats all well and good, but international relations are a whole nother ballgame, one thats not so much dominated by as literally comprehensively composed of state department officials, the intelligence community, and the armed forces. there is no interest group in washington of the same size/influence that is as ideologically homogeneous and there is straight up no countervailing complex of institutions from which to compile an alternative roster of foreign policy officials, much less a ‘leftist’ one (theres an analogous problem in political economy; after, inshallah, the berndawg sets up camp in the white house, I’m anticipating some of his rose emoji constituency to nauseate at the inevitable neoliberalisation of his policy agenda -if, ya know, it passes in the first place.). theres also no route to pressure his administration towards a more leftward approach in international relations with the coalition he’s trying to build*, if anything, the opposite’s the case.
none of this is to gainsay that he’d definitely be a better commander in chief than any of the other ghouls we’ve ever had to pick from, its to say that theres a lot more inertia here than some who are down with the revolution want to admit.
*except maybe israel-palestine
