Yes, a ton. Obviously we don’t have a mass movement yet, but there are almost 100,000 DSA members now (and the DSA itself gives Bernie a lot of credit for that) and probably two or three times that many people who are to the left of Bernie but unaffiliated (or affiliated with a different org). And they’re not just members as a bit – the DSA has actually put people in federal, state, and local offices. There’s something we can work with there, and it’s growing.

What’s a ton, 1000 lbs? So maybe 5-7 grown adults?

If we count people in terms of biomass, yeah, I’m going to say potentially 10s of thousands of tons of people or more are further left now than where his campaign was in 2016-2020, which largely amounted to taxing rich people more to pay for free college and being friends with Joe Biden but having “very different plans.”

I should think these things through a bit more before posting lol.

Let’s not get carried away here! Posting from the hip is the only way to fly.

And you’re right, the Bernie campaign itself didn’t lead people to the left of it. What it did was provide people with an easy first step down the path to leftism, and put them in contact with people who could take them another step, and then another. Getting people even to that position is extremely difficult, so for me the Bernie campaign was an enormous net positive.