[Moved from
here because of off-topic]
Using power to transform the world fundamentally - that is something the left has forgotten is possible.
(...)
Boris today is another example. He is creating history.
If there is world left to inherit from them, the parliamentary left should study and learn from Mitch McConnell, Boris, and the left in power should learn from Modi, Netanyahu, etc.
I always suspected this to be a core idea behind the 'left wing populism' some on here champion, so I'm kind of glad you spelled it out. Frankly, I think it's a dead end - not necessarily for gaining (state) power, but for using it in any other way than to reproduce the power-based institutions and relationships it's supposed to overcome. The initial result might be somewhat prettier or perhaps even nastier - history has seen both -, but imo it will ultimately result in the repetition of 'the same old shit'.
Bottom line for me: You can't copy the basic political forms and practises of the established order, let alone the variants specific to the right, and fill them with a radically different social content. These forms aren't neutral vessels, compatible with any political purpose, they have their own intrinsic practical logic, and they will transform those who try to instrumentalize them, not vice versa. The ever-repeating tragedy of the reformist (and, in different ways, larger parts of the historical revolutionary) left.