“For McAlevey, politics is not about getting the right frame to convince conservative voters; it’s not about mobilizing activists or liberals to lobby Congress or to fund issue groups; it’s not even, primarily, about holding huge marches of the already convinced. It’s about exercising power. The right is powerful because it’s advancing the agenda and funded by the rich, the ultra-rich and corporations. The left doesn’t have the resources to challenge the right on its own terms. What the left does have, McAlevey asserts, is the potential power inherent in the numbers and the economic leverage of the poor and oppressed.”