The Left Has a Hyperpolitics Problem
For all the differences between Black Lives Matter and Stop the Steal, Jager writes-and one might add Occupy Wall Street and Rhodes Must Fall-"these movements exhibit a striking set of similarities: fleeting in duration, they maintain no membership rolls and struggle to impose any real discipline on their adherents." "Incessant yet uncoordinated excitation" makes for a politics that raises hopes only soon to dash them.