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Here is a bit different view from a reformed former radical.

https://quillette.com/2020/02/11/my-former-life-as-a-radical/

He is saying that these people live in mystic la la land and don’t understand what is going on in the world around them.

They might get competent in specific acts of sabotage with practice, but none of them understands the bigger picture and when reality and their theories clash the reality always loses.

Oh, I don’t doubt for a second that there is a large contingent of people on the left who fully fit that well meaning, ignorant, inept characterization. No doubt at all.

When I divide the Left into three categories, the Liberals, the True Believers, and The Movers and Shakers, these people who are well meaning, ignorant or inept are the ones I characterize as “Liberals”. They are too lazy or don’t have the time to think things through, run on emotion, etc. You can often talk to these people, and if you ask pointed questions, you get the impression some of them are more conservative than leftist in some ways. They often aren’t unintelligent, just emotional, intellectually lazy, unaware, and unfocused. There are some number of these people who can become conservatives if they are mugged or have some thing that motivates them.

The “True Believers” are the ones you see wearing pink pussy hats, wearing the Handmaiden outfits, at BLM protests, and are Antifa scum. When confronted, their fevered faces haveheir eyes bulge, they have spittle on their lips. I avoid these people.

And “The Movers and The Shakers” are the people who really know that none of their BS is about social justice, equal rights, or world peace. They know full well that it is about having and holding power...and Boudin is one of them, IMO.

As is the entire Biden Administration.