Do you understand the concept of the Overton window? You’re looking for something that looks like today’s politics, but that’s not how change works. Yesterday’s “radical” becomes today’s “common sense” once it succeeds.
You keep redefining “radical activism” to fit the specific version you disagree with instead of engaging with the broader point. This isn’t about one narrow type of activism it’s about how sustained pressure shifts what’s politically possible.
And since you keep asking for examples instead of engaging the point, here you go:
• GetEQUAL staging sit-ins and chaining themselves to the White House fence
• ACT UP’s confrontational protests widely criticized as too aggressive
• Mass protests and civil disobedience after Prop 8
• Public pressure campaigns that pushed Obama to evolve by 2012
None of that was considered moderate at the time. It was disruptive, criticized, and labeled extreme exactly like the activism you’re dismissing now. I’m not saying all activism is righteous. You’re the one backing a take that dismisses it wholesale.
Once again my point remains the same. Those “small wins” you’re talking about only happen because that pressure exists. Without it, politicians don’t “stay the course” they stay comfortable.