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Instead, leftists who are in the grips of this way of doing things often treat the left like a clubhouse that needs to be guarded to make sure that no one who doesn’t hold all the correct positions and know all the correct ways of speaking and acting gets to step inside.
One thing that all of the flaws of the contemporary left I discuss in this book have in common is that they’re symptoms of what I’ve come to think of as the pathologies of powerlessness.
what I worry most about is that far too many leftists don’t bother thinking about strategic issues at all because, even if they aren’t fully conscious of this, they don’t take seriously the possibility that they could win. Instead, they see their role as simply “taking a stand” against forces too powerful to ever actually be defeated.
