Trumpcares tomb?
Trumpcare's tomb? Royalty-free/gettyimages.com

Everyone on the left is happy that Trumpcare has, for now, collapsed. But this is not a real victory for the left. It is, when properly examined, a huge setback. All we are doing is defending basic stuff, and that is what we will be doing for the next four years—fighting for obvious issues, such as reproductive rights for women, and the rights for undocumented laborers to live peacefully and without fear of the law.

Things like single-payer healthcare? Forget it for now. That's a battle that would have been possible with Hillary Clinton, not with Trump. With Trump, we can expect to make no progress because policies that Clinton would not have attacked—the right for Muslims to lawfully enter the country and so on—are now under constant attack.

Sawant and other Stein supporters must recognize that we have just wasted two months on something that, under Clinton, would not have been an issue. Yes, we won this battle, but how depressing it is that we expended so much nervous and political energy on a thing that should be a given. How depressing it is that this will be the state of leftist politics for the next four years—running from one burning house to the next, and never building a damn thing.