A core principle of leninism and any sort of socialism is adhering to the needs of the masses and working in coordination with the masses. Having a vanguard party doesn’t mean imposing something forcibly on people, and there would be other mass organizations aside from the core vanguard party that work together.

They blame dems, but it seems like they see the less mainstream democrats that are pushing away from the corporate dems as more promising, like there have been a handful of former Trump voters who said they liked Mamdani because he’s doing something different and trying to make things more affordable for average people.