People in those state/local offices often tend to move upwards in the party
name a time this has worked to get a progressive into a meaningfully high office (and they didn’t immediately capitulate and throw the working class under the bus in whole or in part)
No not really, I said it’s only positive if it ends up with the complete destruction of the US, which until that happens means it’s not positive. It’s a retroactive positive, it only counts if it happens, I’m not doing rhetorical trickery or arguing in bad faith, that’s just my take on things. Genocidal racist fascist red team VS genocidal racist fascist blue team makes no functional difference in the material conditions of most people in the world, shit would be no better under kamalas reich