What needs to happen now is you need to find the most willing to organize ones of that group, and get them into more structured organizations while the iron is hot. If theyre allowed to think oh we won the election time to go home and think everythings over then it's pointless. But if you can get some of them to join the Socialist Rifle Organization, and get weapons training, or to transition to organizing with the PSL then that has real value.

Electoral campigns are temporary. They are good at getting a lot of people involved because its socially acceptable to do electoralism, but after the elections they evaporate. It's not a vehicle for sustained revolutionairy action. You need a vanguard party for that. So the goal should be to take the people who are pulled in by the electoral campaign and direct them to permanent political movements. Eventually if you have a lot of decently sized groups that are permanent and revolutionary they can unite into a proper vanguard party.

The mental image you have painted in my mind is quite pleasant

Since commenting I listened to the podcast (the truncated version from their RSS feed). Something I would like to know more about: they mentioned that at some point, he said he would only continue his run if he was endorsed by the DSA. It sounded like endorsement wasn't a certainty. He wasn't sure if they would approve him. There was also some discussion about how nobody thought a leftist could win such a big prize, that it would just be embarrassing to suffer yet another loss. So some people in DSA were at least against it for that reason; they wanted to focus on smaller and more obtainable goals.

As I understood it, he got going, then approached DSA for an endorsement. Rather than being "sent" by DSA which is sort of how I had heard it before. I don't know if his candidacy being contingent on DSA endorsement was due to a political conviction about organization, or needing logistical backing. How responsible was DSA for these 40k canvassers? I assume they were not just in a position to muster a force like that off the bat. But it could be that they were key in recruitment/training. Training 40k people to not make total assess of themselves is very impressive.

Sometimes politicians are members of all sorts of groups, more like a paper membership to show affiliation. I think in this case it's more active. Is there any mechanism of accountability in place here? If Mamdani is elected mayor and he does something totally contrary to the DSA, what do they do about it? Does he plan to consult them when he's in power? Will they have any influence?

Also what's it like to be in the NY DSA right now? Does everyone in NYC know about DSA and that he is an active member? is DSA recruiting from the 40k canvassers? Are new people showing up to their meetings? And how many of them are spies sent by Bill Ackman?

it shifts the Overton window for all of us

It's nice to think of the Overton window as something other than a euphemism for normalizing fascism.