Ah, I understand now. He’s employing the strategy of switching parties so quickly in an effort to clip through the wall and secure either the Democratic or Republican nomination when the electoral system sees he’s out of bounds and pushes him back into a party.
Speedrunners employ similar strategies.
He keeps changing parties, will there be a 4th one?
his politics might not be great but clowning on the american electoral system is still funny
It’s a symptom of not having many vocal, public leftist figures in the USA. In the 90s you really only had like two people, Cornel West and Noam Chomsky. The radicalism of the 60s and 70s had long since been smothered by the reactionary 80s, so literally between the early 90s all the way until Sanders in 2016, there just weren’t a lot of public leftist voices.
West would be on TV in the 90s and 00s, which I think was a huge part of his legacy and image. He’d be on national TV saying stuff like systemic racism, or imperialism, and I remember he was even saying stuff about trans rights as far back as the early 90s. So he definitely had his place, I guess, but maybe he was one of the view that managed to fill the complete vacuum void of how empty/defeated the 90s were for leftists.
In any case, West’s just a personality figure who likes doing speeches and selling books. You’re right that he could retire now and have a mostly positive legacy. He’s been correct his entire career about structural racism, but in essence he’s just a professor and we can’t expect him to have been a revolutionary or anything.
Funniest Shitposting campaign, defending Ron Desantis at one Communist Party to calling for his execution at the next
“I have run as a candidate for every communist party in the United States [challenge]”
Going to be the first line in his legacy subsection on Wikipedia
