The daughter of Colombian and Dominican immigrants, Mejia ran on an adamantly anti–Donald Trump message and secured a whopping 70 percent of the vote as a result. The Associated Press called her victory shortly after the votes started rolling in.
70 percent… wow!
The progressive Democrat’s positions echo several of the policies that made Sanders a national phenomenon, including support for universal health care coverage, tuition-free college, student loan forgiveness programs, and strengthening unions and expanding labor protections in order to bolster America’s middle class.
She sounds like a Democrat who wants to win and is against genocide.
Mejia has also been vocal in her criticism of Israel, publicly denouncing the state’s war on Palestine as a genocide. That caught the attention of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which funneled money into the race to bolster her opponents. In the end, the pro-Israel lobby’s efforts may have been one of the reasons that voters in New Jersey sent Mejia to Congress.
Awesome!
Sometimes moving in the wrong direction is necessary before moving in the right direction. Progress isn’t linear. Often a weak and useless candidate on the correct side needs to lose before a competent and effective candidate can actually stand a chance. If Al Smith had won, we wouldn’t have ever had FDR.
I don’t think any of these people are on the path to defeat fascism. They’re all fascist enablers. They don’t want to fight fascism, they just want to pause it or slow it down a bit.
So you’re an accelerationist. Pray tell, why should you be seated at the table to form a new government, when you did not vote to stop the fascists, and when people have tried to stop them all guys like you do is passive aggressively talk about their morals, while doing nothing to stop the nazis?