I don't think I'm the only progressive with a ton of resentment, built up over a decade, at the fringe online left. It's such a cancerous set of tactics. Waves of anonymous accounts acting like cops. Morally loaded language out of proportion to any issue at hand. Taking statements out of context and twisting them in dishonest ways for a dunk. An inability to provide credible sources for extraordinary claims. A total disdain for nuance. And always, always, always, a ravenous appetite to hurt people our own side. And the reputation of progressives has been destroyed accordingly. We're deeply unpopular in the party. We're seen as harassing assholes online (the way we used to critique gamers for behaving, BTW). The culture on Twitch and YouTube is constantly documenting the hypocrisy and insanity and it's well deserved. A decade ago, when we were more associated with policies like Medicare for All, there WAS a window for us to become the next evolution of the party. And it was utterly squandered. I'll always be a progressive, because I think the policies are the right ones. But, it's time to admit that online progressives are too destructive to ever be a meaningful political force in America, except in the sense we are driving normal people into the arms of the right.