Yeah, for sure. I've seen the talk of how nonprofits and prestigious universities capture the revolutionary potential of the working class, but never thought of the Democrats as a professional organization to act as an anti-vanguard
cops use civilian-worn PPE as justification for increasingly violent crowd control. They're going to do it anyway, of course, but they blame you for protecting yourself while they do it
In my fiction of the future, the DSA is who wins and ushers in the age of socialism by necessity