That being said, I do think there’s a bit of a lesson in here for the left attempting electoralism within the two party system. There’s more to be gained from seizing local control

This has been a pretty consistent message even in the Democratic circles, but there lacked a unified base of leftists interested in electoralism for a long time. I remember a few years ago there was a series of John Oliver episodes that effectively boiled down to "... And these local positions often run unopposed".

I think that base is starting to coalesce as a result of the past few years and fueled heavily by the genocide in Gaza. Regardless of how you feel about each of these candidates you have folks like Cornell West and Claudia De la Cruz running with a relatively descent amount of supporters. The CPUSA is also saying they want to run local candidates, and they report an uptick in membership. Maybe were on the verge of a mass movement, maybe not. Its hard to say.

Local elections, especially in suburbs and small towns would be ripe for disruption. There is a rule on the books where I am that says a party can only have 2/3rds majority in municipal councils. Dems in my area win so hard that the lowest voted Dem has 3x the votes of the highest voted Republican. If you can siphon off enough people you could be in that lower 3rd group easily and bump out a Republican.

There needs to be this kind of strategic analysis in order to gain wins I think. Those wins could build momentum. I worry though that this leftist rise is only a passing wave. Most other leftist rises have gone that way in the recent past. I also worry about a co-opting opportunistic movent that fractures this rise as well. I feel like that's what happened with the occupy movement for example. I don't know how prominent the movement is, but I'm noticing PatSoc coming up in conversation more recently.

This is all off the top of my head, so maybe I'm way off base here. I'm sure someone will tell me of I am lol.