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Whether the issue is gun violence, abortion, or climate change, Democrats and mainstream progressive organizations continue to retread futile legislative paths, often while admonishing activists for adopting more confrontational approaches. If Democrats insist that the only legitimate politics is carried out through our impotent political institutions, they risk isolating and undermining the locally embedded groups that are already applying the kind of tactics that overcame our frozen political system and achieved this country's greatest social changes. Confronted by lockstep Republican and anti-majoritarian obstructionism that makes legislative roads a dead end, Democrats keep "clapping for Tinkerbell" - insisting that, like the fairy in Peter Pan, progressive policy can stay alive as long as everyone demonstrates that they still believe. [Extracted from the article]