Please get on board, Howie Hawkins
My sense is that only HH could stand in the way of a serendipitous near-consensus movement among Greens to get behind the idea of a Cornel West Green Party presidential campaign. What Howie says about such will make a difference. He has a following of loyalists. They could prevent a congealing of unified support.
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From watching his Youtube channel broadcast today I had the impression that HH might not be averse to a Cornel West campaign. Hopefully he’ll be rational about it rather than purist. He tends to be a policy wonk. (Meanwhile, neither the electorate nor the press nor elected officials listen to his detailed policy positions, anyway.)
Marginalism. His head and his orientation are stuck in the far leftist milieu … which matters to about 0.1% of the American electorate. (Though Howie seems to make an allowance for Ralph Nader … who surely does not evince an eco-socialist or “build a working class party” orientation.)
