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.
But the dems won’t do shit
Kamala wants to run again.
Newsom sees himself as a frontrunner.
Mamdami isn’t recognized by Dems and they can’t figure out why he won.
The Democrats continued to drop their balls when they folded after the gov strike.
Yeah we’re looking at another shit year. They’ll just fund ICE less now.
Clinton/Harris 2028
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You got me on that one. For a brief second till I saw the snark tag. Well played.
Yeah, I hope Clinton/Harris was snark.
Great. Then they can do fuck all.
Someone needs to get Jeffries out of there before he finds new ways to score own goals.
Yeah, when the Midterms are over, it will be time to get rid of Jeffries and Schmuck Schumer. If the Dems take one or both Houses, then it’s time to go to war, and these dipshits aren’t in the game. They let the four years of the Biden administration go by without firing a shot, and that can’t happen again.
No kidding, if the next Dem administration is just a repeat of the Biden administration, instead of a full-blown crushing and purging of MAGA, and MAGA ends up back in power, I’m leaving. Not kidding. I don’t see the point of staying here, caring, fighting, protesting, writing, etc., if the people we appoint to fight for us simply refuse to do it.
I’ll just retire to an island or beach somewhere, and watch America burn down from a distance. My family is already talking about it, and comparing options.
Woah, expecting representation in exchange for your vote? Sorry buddy, this purity test is unreasonable. Dont you know that governing is hard? Of course you dont because youre not in the big club.
Now suck on nanci Pelosi’s toes with the biggest grin you can muster or else you will be labeled a Russian bot by our finest record correctors.
Surely the Dems wont blow this on some terrible tactical decision around optimizing corporate and foreign government bribes, ignoring what their constituents want, and reflexively beating up their left flank.
I am waiting to see what will be the excuse of dem votes to not vote one more time.
I’ll believe nothing until I see it. I’ll be voting Democrat.
Also be on the lookout for Republicans in sheep’s clothes running for local elections. You can easily tell them apart but I won’t say how. Just read the pamphlet or if they fucked up and you didn’t get one go to the website and read about the candidates. For local I’ve been picking people by their background. For example for superintendent for the school district pick a teacher. For fire fighters pick a firefighter. For other things I’ve picked engineers and science background candidates. We gotta get rid of the retarded politicians and the carrier politicians that just waste our tax money on defense and military stuff.
They have this chance, yes. I hope they’re able to capitalize on it. But, I know Schumer and the geriatric democrats have an uncanny way of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
And they’ll bust it with their tried and tested method for failure: trying to court the right by moving right and abandoning leftist causes.
abandoning leftist causes
Actively opposing leftist causes
Dems put more effort into opposing Mamdani than they did into prosecuting Trump over J6 💀
Narrator: But they won’t.
As any lingering hope drained out of his body, he smiled and masturbated himself one last time to the idea that he was right to never dare to hope in the first place.
lol. The great blue tsunami? Probably more like great blue tear splash. Never underestimate their ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. It’s by design.
I’ve heard that the guy leading the Democratic Party right now has been pushing for a 50 state approach as well as pushing for all levels of government, even state legislatures. Putting more money into state parties as well. Seems like the right approach at least.
The last guy who had that idea got absolutely railroaded for showing enthusiasm during a stump speech.
He was right, though.
Well yes, but that wasn’t enough to save him once the powers that be decided they wanted him gone.
What’s your point though? He’s was right, the party moved on and that was clearly a mistake. Now it seems like they’re recognizing that mistake and doing something about it.
Just that democrats have had this opportunity in the past and are really good at fucking it up.
Good point, they either will, or they won’t.
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.
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.
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 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 didn’t exactly prep anyone to replace him either.
We knew for years Manchin would eventually leave, and we opted to just give up the seat more or less rather than setting up another Democrat like him or even one that could sway West Virginian voters like Bernie managed to do in 2025!
We could 100% run progressives in rural Red states and win. They just need to paint a vision of hope for these people and give them a common person making their problems worse, the billionaires and big corporations.
Yeah, it should be easy for rural voters to see the benefits of Dems and to see how republicans are actively harming them. Just need somebody to say it.
I agree, our messaging is so bad in terms of actually reaching these people. Politicians need to get out of their comfort zones and give a compelling message to these voters.
It’s shocking how little of the Democratic platform even reaches these people’s ears and what little they do hear is wishy washy corporate speak rather than giving direct ways a progressive platform can change their life for the better.
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.
Well, yeah, since the Democrat he beat in the primary ran against him as an independent in the general election. So of course that cut his margin of victory.
Didn’t hear to much from our blue maga lemmitors about the spoiler effect for that NYC mayoral race. I wonder why.
/u/Rhoeri@lemmy.world got anything for us buddy?
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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
If there’s a way, no matter how small, for the Dems to squander this opportunity and wrestle defeat from the jaws of victory, they will leave no bland page of the most moderate and uninspiring speech unread to a near empty chamber.
My thoughts exactly. I can’t wait to see the controlled opposition “accidentally” fumble a guaranteed win.
Schumer’s and Jefferies are currently working directly against Democrats abilities to storm into a majority. If you only have the ability to lead in fair weather and favorable winds, you don’t have the ability to lead.
These two in particular are doing material damage to Democrats abilities to barnstormer November.
They need to give us something to fight for first. The system is not currently supporting and nourishing it’s children. Why on earth would we trust people to help that can’t even fully recognise a genocide? How do we trust them to give us healthcare? It’s an insult to the intelligence of the American people.
agreed, the new wedge issues havent dropped yet.
Who knows what they will tell us to think about for this round, so excited.Ahhh yes. Why fight against evil if all my boxes aren’t ticked. Enjoy 100 years of fascism.
It’s not about ticking boxes though. It’s recognizing that just sitting on your hands and doing nothing for people other than saying “well at least we aren’t the Republicans!” and not fighting tooth and nail for important things (like the PRO Act, voting reform, minimum wage increases, etc) just means people are gonna walk away and try voting for the other team next cycle because at least they’re promising something.
Fascism has never been overthrown by limp oppoisition parties suddenly finding a spine. It’s either war, revolution or (in a few odd cases) a coup, such as the one carried out by Spain’s otherwise useless and corrupt king when Franco bit the dust.
I’m all for revolution.
Just because I go out of my way to vote, doesn’t mean I expect others to when the results are against them either way. Bullying people won’t get you any further to what is needed. Aim it at the politicians, they more than deserve it. If you give people something to show up for, anti corruption and anti genocide, they’ll show up, just like they did for Mandami.
The donors will never allow the democratic party to change. That’s why its all on the voters to change what they are asking for to what the donors desire.
Only if progressives throw their hats into the primaries in 2026.
I’ve seen a disturbing lack of progressives readying up to kick out establishment dems, just like every year.
Dems broke their spirit.
MAGA took over the republicans without bitching that it was hopeless.
The Tea Party gave Repubs the courage to be the racist Christofascists they already were, the left side of American politics is far less homogeneous.
The Tea Party and MAGA also had billionaire funding.
Yah this. The idea that an organic, grassroots movement can overcome current oligarch control over media and politics is nonsense. Ever since Citizens United and all the prior consolidations of power (Nixon, Gingrich, Patriot Act, etc.), there is no fighting back for the common man, even en masse. There are protests as large as 14M people and it had no effect on politicians, revolution should have already happened, but politicians are ignoring the call. They are hell bent on answering only to Billionaires. I really think there’s only one solution left and it’s right here in a quote from JFK: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
Apparently we can limit Citizens United at the state level, or at least there are efforts currently being put into place to do so. If each state managed to implement their own caps on Citizens United then that would go a long ways towards giving power back to the people.
I feel that the largest amount of hope lies in increasing the amount of social programs in Blue States, like New Mexico is doing.
The idea that an organic, grassroots movement can overcome current oligarch control over media and politics is nonsense.
It has happened in many other countries, and I don’t believe in American exceptionalism.
JFK has a lot to teach us about how politicians should be treated.
A wide ranging peaceful protest movement with specific legislative goals such as the Civil Rights Act.
And when that doesn’t work, it’s time to touch grass. Lots of grassy knolls are available if people are motivated.
MAGA did not try to upend the pro-buisness nature of the Republican party. MAGA and old school republicans serve the same masters.
Progressive reformers have a much steeper hill to climb, as it would require a near-total destruction of the Democratic Party status quo in order to effect meaningful change.
Both D and R politicians are deeply addicted to dark money donations; we have legalized bribery and corruption. Ending this addiction, even in one party, is not a small, simple act- it is a revolution.
A revolution sounds pretty damn good right about now.
Yep. All it ever is is excuses.
Even if this were true–which I am skeptical that it is–we cannot wrest our republic from the brink by winning every election by wide margins. If we can’t find a way to reconcile the degree to which we can’t agree on a basic set of facts and institute government that is responsive to the needs of the people, then the seemingly impending authoritarian age will come to pass.
