The Majority Report crew takes a look back on Force the Vote and reexamines the strategy. The goal of holding Democrats and politicians, in general, is a good one. Extracting value for supporting a politician, like Nancy Pelosi, is also a good strategy. But when FTV just became a referendum on The Squad then it just seemed to be a vendetta.
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Sam Seder: One of the things you know is it's been an ongoing conversation about Force the Vote. And one of the things why I initially was supportive of the effort is because I do believe that it is the role of people who are, you know supporters or activists of you know or just citizens, to push their politicians. I think it also can sometimes be you're pushing them for something that makes no sense. And that was what ultimately was the problem with that. is it not so much the broad tactic of pushing your politicians. you want that to happen. The politicians, the good ones and the ones that are decent also want that to happen. because they want to be boxed in to make certain decisions. Because it gives them some measure of cover. But you also want to do it for some actual gains.
Matt Lech: Yeah, we had Ben Spielberg on Left Reckoning last week to talk about this exact dynamic of how to do this correctly. and I think the problem The Squad has any time that they get something Biden also says, "Oh yeah. I wanted that too". We're not in a situation where they push for something that they can't own. Right? And it'd be nice to like. I don't know if they're like if the strategy structurally it's possible where they can say, I mean AOC is talking about sinking the bipartisan bill now, like that muscle needs to get exercise. And the problem with Force the Vote is it didn't really like it narrowed the exercise way too much to where we forgot that oh we're supposed to exact a price from Pelosi to continue supporting her that's fundamentally what we need and we didn't really even get as good of a price because of all the noise.
Emma Vigeland: Well the narrowing was it was a was that's why the narrowing was a part of a particular product.
Matt: The narrowing wasn't about yeah the narrowing wasn't about extracting more from Dems. It was about a referendum on the project of The Squad.
Emma: Exactly
Sam: Exactly. And that was what ultimately you know it ended up being when i left the bus on that.
Emma: Well but it's important to keep asking Cori Bush about it as she's on the steps camping out about the eviction moratorium.
Sam: Right.
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