The deeper problem here is that many people do not actually understand what coalition-building looks like because they have never had to build one in real life. Their political experience is primarily aesthetic. It happens through Threads posting. Through captions. Through re-quotes sharpened into little prison shivs. Real organizing is much uglier and much harder. It involves awkward interactions and partial agreements and deeply irritating personalities

https://davidgate.substack.com/p/we-need-to-have-imperfect-allies