The left and maybe Democrats if they ally with us need to focus on building up viable, livable urban, suburban, and exurban areas. This means more YIMBYism and municipalism (to make municipalities more directly democratic.) Municipalities should be nexuses of small "d" democratic power with the focus of making urban areas in the U.S more viable, livable spaces without rigid bureaucracy, but which provide desirable services and public goods to their residents. These municipalities need to federate and coordinate across states and help each-other solve many of the most pressing issues, probably starting with the housing crisis at first. They should also ally with class-conscious worker's unions and tenants unions (with a syndicalist movement as an adjacent "dual" nexus of building worker power.)
That is the only hope for a real left-wing in the United States that can actually effectuate meaningful changes. Over-time as these organizations gain in power, then the state and national politics will change to accommodate them not because they want to but because they have no choice but to.
The issue we have is that the United States has one party that is two-thirds Nationalist (MAGA) and a third fusionist and another party that is the final home of social liberals, conservative liberals, and social democrats, the last of whom the nationalist-fusionist party deems as "far-left", even though in most countries and historically in the U.S (pre-Reagan) they'd be center-left at best.That is not enough political representation to meet the political-economic needs of the working class. And when the working class isn't represented it typically defaults to electing demagogues and fascists.
