

Hard agree. There’s a strong effort here to portray the organization as irredeemable or fatally flawed. You can see an org that has learned from multiple failures and that is continuing to improve. You can see that the NDC is an iterative improvement over using standard channels and even though this incident predates the NDC you can see that body is also learning from it. In my personal opinion I’d want to see the party, and any socialist party, plan for malfeasance, sexual assault, and other inappropriate behavior by creating a strong independent and adversarial investigative arm. That said I’d defer to people that have more experience in building strong mechanisms for handling these kinds of issues.
He’s also endorsed by the local DSA.