2/ I do not know a single person doing actual work on the left that it's at their wits end about the crazies.

I do not know a single person doing actual work on the left that doesn't have some degree of trauma from abuse by our own side.

Here’s the truth. Your behavior has destroyed the mainstream perception of progressives. We’re not seen as champions of the working class.

We’re seen as a bunch of self-righteous assholes. You are in the business of dividing us over the most petty nonsense

3/ Every single person on the left I know with actual power I know is tired of your bullshit. I’m inviting you to grow up.

There is not going to be a moment where you scream and people on the right and center have an epiphany and realize you are right and they are wrong.

If you are serious about change, you have to work for it. The same way every other successful progressive movement in history has worked for it.

4/ You say you want a glorious revolution, but it's the normie Democrats showing up to canvas and phonebank. It's why they win.

Another thing. We need to learn to let things go. Every difference in perspective is not a crisis. We amplify every minor disagreement like it’s a moral failing.

Politics is about addition, not subtraction. We have to work with people who see the world differently.

5/ My hands are not clean on this. I've certainly done my share of reactionary, non-constructive bullshit on Twitter.

But, I also think that gives me credibility to publicly say, "This is not working. We have to do something different."

And here’s why I’m speaking up now.

I think you are vulnerable.

6/ People are tired of the drama, the bullshit, the moral indignation over small differences. This is the moment we can have a culture shift if people speak up.

The left has always had to work twice as hard as the right. We have to be twice as strategic, and we’re punished twice as hard for mistakes.

Our Twitter activism culture is cancer. And I am done being bullied into silence over it.

@abhayakara @briannawu A red line is something like "Are we going to defend trans folk or are we going to sacrifice them to gain aceptance for lgb folk like we did for generations?"

That's not an 'emotional' need, it's a red line.

Or how about whether or not we'll let unrepentant sexual harassers like, say, Al Franken, back into party leadership?

Again, not emotional, it's a red line.