Sweeping Democratic victories in off-year elections seem to be foreshadowing a very good midterms for the party, and one expert believes it’s even bigger than that.
“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fundamentally transform legislative power,” Heather Williams, president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC), which focuses on electing Democrats to statehouses, told Mother Jones.
That is certainly a better start than years past where they simply ignored everything except top level offices. Including their voters.
But it still won’t help anything if they try to run the most focused group tested, middle-of-the-road, oligarch approved, bland candidates. Mamdani and others are showing another path. But so far, local and national Democrats have always seemed to want to fight their kind.
I think it’s important to remember that different parts of the country require different types of candidates. Dems flipped out about Manchin, but he was the only Democrats would get elected in the region.
We should not care who they try to run, and instead show up in the primaries to dictate to them who we choose.
Wether we should or shouldn’t doesn’t matter since the last election showed people will either stay home or defect if Dems run another Corpo shilling milquetoast do nothing right of center candidate.
I’ll still vote for them just to spite the Fascist Right Cunts but I certainly won’t like it and I will certainly bitch about it.
Just be aware that you’re not bitching into a vacuum. Think about the consequences.
I do think there’s room to bitch, but it’s important to be smart about it.
And yeah, let’s win some primaries. I’m not compromising in the primaries. And I’m not going to be fooled by a run slightly left to be followed by a run towards center-right.
I agree. Though one addendum. showing up in the primaries is good, but it’s not going to solve bad candidates. We need to start running ourselves. Rebuilding state parties ourselves. And telling the disastrous national party to get fucked.
That sort of concentrated power always results in conceitedness and corruption.
I don’t understand why people are so hot on Mamdani. His vote totals were actually significantly lower than most recent Democrat nominees in this primarily Democratic city.
Because according to conventional wisdom. People like him weren’t supposed to be able to win.
According to progressive wisdom he should be able to win elsewhere but even in blue Minneapolis the same kind of progressive lost.
It’s not a silver bullet and the person replying above you that it takes all kinds is entirely right. I like mamdani but there’s not a shot in hell he’d win my city.
But hey, I’m sure more purity tests will help progressives as always.
I’m an anarchist. Honestly, I don’t believe that there should be anyone with more power than a mayor. And that the mayor of New York has too much power already. But that’s neither here nor there.
Everyone, every group of people is different. They’re is no magic bullet. No one size fits all. My city is also to ignorant and insular for a similar candidate to win. Currently. But it doesn’t always have to be that way.
Why are you acting like this wasn’t a race between democrats though? The Republican canidate and any other 3rd party canidates had no chance.
In the primary Mamdani beat all the other democrats. Then for the general the run of the mill corporate democrat ran independent and still lost.
It’s essentially a race showing us the type of democrats proffered by democratic voters