Eileen Higgins’s win has reset the city’s political landscape in some ways not seen in 28 years, and in others not at all
Miami’s new mayor, Eileen Higgins, hailed it as “a new day” for the city after the Democrat ended three decades of Republican rule on Tuesday night in a stunning election triumph.
In reality, the result is more of a seismic shifting of sands given the magnitude of her victory over the Donald Trump-backed Republican candidate, Emilio González, in the most populous city in Miami-Dade county, which the president won in 2024 by 12%.
Higgins won the run-off with almost 60% of the vote, according to preliminary results reported Wednesday by the Miami Herald. More than just further evidence of a growing national backlash against Trump’s policies on the national stage, particularly immigration, her win has reset Miami’s political landscape in a manner not seen in some ways in 28 years, and in others not at all.
Slow and steady wins the race
Nope. That’s exactly why Hilary lost.
Then why did Biden win?
He won because Trump failed to steal the election after a once in a century pandemic. That’s who he was running against. Then after 4 years we all got secondary amnesia from watching Biden.
He still got the most votes of any president ever. He got double the votes of Bernie in the primary.
The people want neolib bullshit. It’s stupid of them to want, but it is what they want. We gotta change their minds on a massive scale before we can expect them to change so drastically.
I don’t think people care about ideology as much as we are told. Just call it affordability.
He also got pathetic votes. If he had a progressive against him (at the televized debates, on all ballots), he would have lost by a landslide
That’s pure speculation, you’re just claiming what you wish would happen with zero evidence or justification.
People want to eat (the rich)
I think you overestimate the class consciousness of the average American voter. Biden didn’t get “pathetic votes”, he got the most votes of any president ever. Even just proportionately, all the presidents in the last century with a clear majority win have been neolib types.
People don’t want to eat the rich, people wanna eat hamburgers and play video games. You and your little online message board friends (myself included) want to eat the rich, and if you spend all your time here you might fool yourself into thinking the average American has a somewhat elevated class consciousness. They do not.
My work brings me in contact with all sorts of people across all strata of life. The average person just kinda muddles through life, they don’t really spend any particular length of time thinking about anything really, whatever their favorite diversion is perhaps (games, sports, TV, movies, etc.).
I personally talked to a surprising number of people who, after the election, thought Biden was the candidate in 2024. People genuinely just do not care. They have basically no media literacy, no knowledge of current events, no general practice of critical thinking.
We’re not gonna get a progressive president before the general class consciousness shifts significantly. What we can get is an FDR type who will at least talk to the progressives at the table, and then get progressive to the table.
Slow and steady, comrade snail.
I think you underestimate the class consciousness of the average US American.
Most people who can vote, don’t vote. Give them a progressive candidate, not some obvious corporate puppet, and people will elect them.
Then why did Biden beat Bernie in the primary?