Wilson Carey McWilliams on SDS, but as if explaining what happened to DSA over the past few years:

“The old understandings” in DSA were perhaps never as clear as I wish they had been. But there was at least a culture of resisting “most left-wing person in the room” contests, and a sense that “socialist” didn’t mean “progressive turned up to 11.“​ I don’t know where in American organizational politics one now finds that ethos.