Sanders served his purpose, as did Corbyn in the UK. Both of them acted a pipeline, and appealed to a large demographic of folks who have lost everything (or never had anything to begin with). By their defeats, a large portion of people who were ready to compromise for reforms will simply discover reform is no longer an option for such a system, as it never was in the first place. they also did something relatively ambivalent, which was to reintroduce socialism to the Anglosphere, you can now call yourself a socialist, for good or ill, on TV without getting the same reaction you’d have gotten 30 years ago.

So it’s not all doom and gloom. The next 4 years are going to be absolutely bonkers. Apathy is death, and considering Biden explicitely says nothing will change, the current state of affairs can only go horribly awry; which will radicalize those who were still sceptical about revolution. Hell, many of on this site are “new” leftists, who just came aboard because their material conditions got to shit over a quick period.