It would be a mistake to say that broadcast media isn’t doing its job. With its unrelenting hostility to Bernie Sanders and hostility toward any challenge to establishment politics, it’s functioning exactly as designed.

At Jacobin, we make no illusions of being able to compete with the power or reach of mass media outlets. We reach a couple of million people online every month, and tens of thousands in print — it’s not bad for democratic socialists, but nothing compared to what’s needed.

We could be doing a lot better. There are millions of more people out there that we aren’t reaching and who share our belief in a world built on justice and equality. We can’t just cede YouTube and a generation hungry for anti-establishment appeals to the reactionary right.