X: "Oh my fucking god the American communist party website was registered to a fucking Georgetown professor who is actually a CIA contractor LMAO God damn these fucking people are so bad at being feds
It's a pretty great way to get an excuse to talk to average people in terms they are prepared to understand, ie electoral politics. The goal isn't, like, to build socialism by becoming president lol
The PSL's strategy is not electoralism, though. It's a tactic for demonstrating the bankruptcy of USAmerican "democracy". I promise you, every conversation is about outreach and teaching, not about trying to win office.
If the PSL and the Claudia de la Cruz campaign are brought up in conversations about third party voting, even if the narrative is about "throwing a vote away" or whatever, I don't think that's devaluing the position and coopting a narrative. The alternative was having the same conversation without the PSL being brought up at all. However, now once we are in the conversation, we get the chance to educate about alternative methods of political organizing and engagement.