the way trump and MAGA has been normalized over and over in every aspect of our lives vs the way people talk about it when dems are getting more left wing is so telling of which direction politically a lot of people are more comfortable with even if they refuse too admit it

Damn right it is, I'm fucking sick of the cycle since Vietnam of "you're immature for not supporting our imperial policies" Guess what the left has matured and we want fucking consequences for complicity in genocide

i live in darializa's district. i cannot begin to describe the frequency and ugliness of the attacks against her. that she has overcome that and beaten a very powerful incumbent is an objectively incredible thing

You people are being really disrespectful to the people who lost an election to George Santos

Mamdani is in the big leagues now. Lander won, but we expected that. The story is that Valdez, also backed by Mamdani, beat Reynoso. The Brooklyn party told Mamdani in public to back off. A mayor from outside Brooklyn who can tell the Brooklyn party to get in line is powerful indeed.

They are so mad right now lol

Maybe don't derogatorily call your opponent a Haitian in a disgusting, gutter racist way?

Representatives Goldman and Espaillat really should have moderated their extreme views on Israel-Palestine policy, views which are increasingly out of step with their constituents and American voters in general. The price of not getting out of your “ideological bubble”

Great point and it really needs to be said: how much of the left-wing insurgency would be immediately de-fanged if some of these people were just willing to say the plain truth about Palestine?

This race really does say two things 1) Mamdanimania is way more real than anyone anticipated 2) Espaillat was yet another incumbent who, when confronted by a literal nobody out of nowhere, was really lazy, and at the last minute became really racist.

Maybe party machines should not be decades behind their constituents.

Abdul El Sayed

Womp womp

you cant be a former Bush speech writer and talk like this 😭

Mamdani's political capital going way up after tonight which in turn also means a certain Latina socialist's capital also going way up

it was magdi jacobs

Dan Goldman losing to Brad Lander clearly proves that Democratic voters hate Jewish candidates

My brother, if we win the Democratic Party primaries then we ARE the Democratic Party

arrrrrrrrre youuuuuuuuu readyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

It's so funny that The Atlantic started as an abolitionist journal and is now, among other things, the retirement home for Bush-era xenophobes

Espaillat's loss can in, part, by directly traced back to ICE's kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil

tough few elections for the better things aren't possible party

These voters aren't trying to take over or "destroy" the Democratic Party. They're a faction of the Democratic Party insisting on having its role in the coalition taken as seriously as any other.

Oregon, it is time. You know what must be done

The courage and mental toughness that every member of our organization showed during this week despite the harassment, the intimidation, the bad faith, and the conniving makes me so proud. Enjoy this guys, we deserve it.

New York City voters seemed energized by victories from Brad Lander, Darializa Chevalier, and Claire Lopez. But in this small diner roughly 75 miles outside of Topeka, news of the results was not welcomed as warmly

You know.......I would really like to live in the world where the president losing a war of choice with Iran, destabilizing global energy markets, and then demanding the FBI investigate the sabotage of his swimming pool has some consequences, y'know? I would like that. It would be nice.

It is monstrous to support genocide and it is not dehumanizing to call someone that based on their views sorry

There's some really psychotic islamophobia and anti-arab racism just below the surface in certain parts of the Democratic Party center/establisment. In particular the NY/NJ establishment electeds and pundits. Does anyone remember how Gillibrand talked about Mamdani during the NYC mayoral primary?

I have never been more personally vindicated in my life

This is the root of the Soros accusations- the right wing chud aristocracy were actually all on the take from a shadowy network based out of Eastsrn Europe

tbh I trust Magyar a lot more given that it's the wokest version of the flag. It's like how we knew that the never trumpers were sincere because they started saying democrat*ic* party

i think when people on here are talking about “liberals” or “leftists” they should just name the three specific Posters they are thinking of so we can save a lot of time

Has anyone written about how Trump is a phenomenon of an aging society where the median voter no longer wants a brighter future but for the world they remember from being 23 to remain frozen in amber forever

its the canadian century

> The United States is self-immolating on a daily basis >Russia is being immolated by Ukraine >China is deflationmaxxing European century, it is, I guess

For the third by-election in a row Reform UK offered voters the politics of rage and for the third time in a row they have been roundly rejected as a result. How Andy Burnham's massive victory in Makerfield shows the wheels are now coming off of the Nigel Farage project

i will say as someone who hangs out on the other site still the category of people i'd say who have completely gone off their rocker since november 2024 are centre/centre left people, completely losing their minds

You're not supposed to say this, but conservatives hate HPV vaccines because they think that removing the risk of cervical cancer from sex incentives women to be sluts. It's been a Christian thing since way before RFK Jr. was around, everybody knows what it's about, but you have to pretend not to.

no no it’s because real centrism has never been tried

the idea that there is a latent far-left socialist majority that refuses to vote is legitimately just the political equivalent of a cargo cult

When people read about this era in 200 years they're going to be convinced most of it was an allegory and not real

historians are divided on whether trump was actually a real person, or the stories of a large series of petty tyrants over a period of perhaps 100 years whose stories got merged and blended together back when AI was unsophisticated and new

when you’ve never won a game in the 96 year history of a tournament but now you’re crushing qatar (complimentary)

andy burnham took a massive risk running in that seat and won a size of victory that nobody expected of him against a bleak national polling backdrop. kind of incredible

It now seems beyond any doubt that Burnham will be prime minister soon. Labour MPs will look at that result - the consolidation of the progressive vote, the swathes of ex-Reform voters returning to Labour - and they won’t be able to wait long.

Of greatest significance is that the Reform + Restore vote is still significantly less than Labour's.

Upon further reflection I think this may just be a case of the bar having been on the floor with Starmer, tbh. Really underlines the extent of wilful vandalism towards our base that has characterised his time in office.

Remember all those articles about how young men are becoming much more right wing and pro-Reform than older men? Well it turns out the opposite is actually true