I’m not surprised that these messages are resonating. For years I was part of internationalist left movements that protested outside meetings of the World Trade Organization, the World Economic Forum in Davos, G8 summits, and the International Monetary Fund for their roles in undermining democracies and advancing the interests of transnational capital; in the United States, we called out both major parties for being beholden to corporate donors and serving the rich rather than the people who voted them into office. This was the energy behind Occupy Wall Street, and then behind Bernie, and that coursed through various battles against new oil and gas projects. But our movement never won power.

XREF: Connects to broader debates about why leftist protest movements from WTO protests through Occupy Wall Street and the Bernie Sanders movement failed to achieve electoral or institutional power despite resonating widely.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 404