Top Democrats insist that they’re unfazed by the party’s forming a “Zohran Mamdani wing,” after the New York City mayor’s stunningly successful primary night.
They’re not going to “let them” do anything. The progressives are taking over the party whether the establishment want them to or not, because the progressives are the ones with their voters’ needs in mind, who serve their constituents over corporate donors.
The mandate from the masses, the consent of the governed, all those lofty ideals that underpin democracy give the advantage to progressives. The only way the Democratic Party establishment holds onto power over the next few election cycles is by abandoning democracy.
“Are we going to let them take over the party?”
They fuggen better
They don’t have a choice. They are part of the machinery at this point.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.”
– Franklin Delano Roosevelt, leader of the Democratic party at its most popular and most powerful
They should try to heed the wisdom of their predecessor, or they can instead demonstrate how far the party has fallen.
Delano*
His wife was Eleanor, which I think is why people fuck up his middle name all the time.
Who was a brilliant god damned mind in her own right!
They’re not going to “let them” do anything. The progressives are taking over the party whether the establishment want them to or not, because the progressives are the ones with their voters’ needs in mind, who serve their constituents over corporate donors.
The mandate from the masses, the consent of the governed, all those lofty ideals that underpin democracy give the advantage to progressives. The only way the Democratic Party establishment holds onto power over the next few election cycles is by abandoning democracy.