He obviously grasps the allure of a slogan like Abolish ICE, but he also grasps the dangers of purism he quips that he always advises politicians, like the patients in prescription drug ads, to ask their campaign managers if Abolish ICE is right for their districts. He’s a millennial with some surprisingly old-school ideas about politics, and he worries that his fellow young lefties will marginalize their movement if they think they can change the world without realistic compromise, serious policy work, transactional coalition-building and the kind of public opinion research that by one measure made Data for Progress the most accurate pollster of the 2020 primary.
McElwee may be an ideologue, but he’s a pragmatic big-tent ideologue who believes the left can best advance its agenda from inside the Democratic Party-and can eventually come to control it.įirst, though, McElwee believes the left needs to stop making other huge strategic mistakes. McElwee thinks that’s a huge strategic mistake, and he doesn’t expect many progressives to make it in November this week, Sanders and fellow liberal icon Elizabeth Warren endorsed Biden, and AOC also called for a united front against Trump. The American left is at a crossroads, with some leading activists defiantly refusing to support Biden.
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