i'm fairly positive the right wing of the org (who hold the most sway in NYC) do think they can tea party the democrats, when i said "beats me" it was more that I have no idea what their strategy around Zohran, specifically, is and don't want to speak out of turn on shit I have zero firsthand knowledge of. I did also live in Brooklyn from the late 2010s - early 2020s before leaving for cheaper pastures and felt out the DSA before deciding against it, the more radical people I met there lamented how difficult it was to get non-electoral work off the ground, the rest seemed extremely gung ho about electing the Right Democrats. things might have changed since then, anecdotes gonna anecdote, etc, so anyone closer to this stuff can feel free to chime in and correct me if i'm off base at all.

if I didn't think this were a core part of their strategy that's ineffective I probably would just butt out of these convos, but for whatever marginal value pointing people toward other possibilities on the internet has - eh, i decide to post