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I think the comment by @Marat is an appropriate response. The "left" is a vague and ambiguous term that seems to often just mean liberals on social media.
Because in my experience the comrades in the core that do subscribe to revolutionary ideologies and are involved in organizing seem to have a clear-eyed view of figures like Mamdani and AOC. They understand pretty clearly that the goal of participating in elections is to disrupt and educate, not to funnel energy back into the Democratic wing of the corporate American uniparty.
The problem is the failure to build real political power in the imperial core due to a variety of variables. We can talk about accountability for these failures with the revolutionary left, but imo it would help to stop concentrating so much on how liberals are behaving. Lumping communists and anarchists in with liberals in these critiques is also just giving into the same framing that fascists set up anyway.