Sanders Says Billionaire Effort to Crush Mamdani Rooted in Fears of Nationwide Progressive Wave
"They are worried that his campaign is an example of what can happen all over the country."
It really is. Even though demonizing people for no particular reason is the GOPs shtick I've never seen them, and liberals even, go so hard after a Mayoral nominee.
No more compromise. The government goes back to being "By the People, For the People" or we descend into tyranny.
Too late
streisand effect, he wouldve gotten little support publically if the gop and dnc wernt pushing out propaganda against him.
I think this above all many other things over the last couple decades are where the Democratic Party have gone mask-off about who they really are.
They've lost the Presidency, the Supreme Court, and both Houses in recent years, and finally the moment they get one small chance of victory they're just... nope, we'd rather lose yet another election than allow a left-of-center candidate to win.
A progressive wave? Progress??? IN MY COUNTRY?!?!?!
NEVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Is it really going to be a progressive wave if people just want what they used to have back?
Considering the current state of things, that would be progress.
It will never go to exactly the same. Aim for better. Get better. Progress is progress from any point.
i don't think they're afraid of a progressive raid so much as a communist wave
If the DNC is going to be “the left” in the US, the need to make room for democratic socialists. Look at the crowds coming out to see Sanders and AOC. Most progressives in the country are apathetic about the Dems because they can’t commit. Look at the GOP. Along came Trump, and they didn’t like him. But he ran against a WOMAN! An UPPITY one at that! And that fucker won! Now, whatever he says or does, they’re like, “Fuck it. Somehow it works.” And they commit to it. And conservative voters, right or wrong, respond to it. Meanwhile, the “liberal” party’s platform has been “we’re not them” since the midterms in Trump’s first term. No wonder people don’t give a shit about them. Nobody knows what they stand for.
The biggest problem, and I do say biggest, that DNC has is that they all have been trying to win votes not by being progressive but chasing after "the center" or left leaning Republicans. They can't do that if they support true progressive candidates.
Exactly, which gets back to my point. Their whole platform is they’re not as crazy as the Republicans. Which means they’re content being the republicans of 10-20 years ago, but they're trying to do it by only stating what they’re against, which is to say whatever modern Republicans are in favor of. That’s not a platform, and not anything voters should be excited about supporting.
In the last-chance timeline, this would be the last poodle moment for any momentum to build in such a way.
