Nach dem Sieg von Mamdani fordern Progressive die wichtigsten Herausforderungen für das demokratische Establishment. „Das Establishment war noch nie schwacher als jetzt“, sagte ein Anwalt gegenüber potenziellen progressiven Kandidaten. „Du musst rennen.“
https://www.commondreams.org/news/mayor-race-nyc
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Wish the NJ primaries took place prior to this. We’d have a better candidate.
Also we need RCV for NJ.
I’m here for whoever can win at this point. I just need a D next to their name and a ballot in my hand.
70 percent of races go uncontested.
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Just remember, kids: Today’s „establishment“ was yesterday’s „progressives“.
Soon enough, YOU’LL be the new „establishment“ and then there’ll be a new crop of „progressives“ waiting to kick you out for becoming a bunch of corrupt, out-of-touch, backward-thinking dinosaurs who fucked everything up.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
In any case, „Have fun storming the castle!“ — Miracle Max
Amen
Democrats very rarely call out Fox News. Democrats are getting pulverized by right-wing, Republikan media, and they do nothing. Have no coordinated strategy of any kind. Totally clueless.
Democrats would be wise to follow Zohran’s ascension here. He saw problems, articulated those problems, and offered very clear and believable solutions on how to achieve these solutions.
I’m not from New York, but I am ecstatic about what this could mean for progressive/Demsocs across the country.
We had 90 million sit out the presidential race because everyone thought we needed a „centrist“ Presidential candidate. Harris was that. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Let’s give this a try at the city and state levels.
I’m seriously considering primarying the rep for my district. He’s 74 and needs to go. Hopefully someone else will step up but if not, I will
saikat chakrabarty is running for nancy pelosi’s sf congress seat. If we can even get it close, that’ll be a big win
This is EXACTLY why so much money was pouring in for Cuomo. To prevent Leftist Wave against Establishment democrats. Instead of fighting Trump they bow to him, instead of fighting ice they let them into their cities. People are done with the Establishment across the NAtion.
And that 28% approval for democrats comes from them not the left.
Which means they need to join the Democratic party and become active participants.
It sounds counterintuitive but it’s the hard truth.
The Democrats are just made of people who show up and they follow the electorate.
The „left“ keeps finding reasons to NOT participate in the party and NOT vote, which is the reason why the electorate / voting public moves to the right.
The right correctly realized that to be catered to, they needed to become active voters.
Meanwhile, the left mistakenly assumed they should be catered to first, before they would become voters.
want to take over the Democratic party? Become Democrats.
This is not a chicken or egg dilemma.
If you’re as popular as you claim, could also easily outvote the current primary electorate.
So sign up for the Democratic Party today!
A passable victory isn’t going to rock the foundations of everything.
The very last thing we need to do at the moment is devour our own. We do need replace and repair.
Mamdani beat a sex offender and someone nobody liked.
He didn’t defeat someone from a hard red state and pulled off a miracle.
Stop infighting.
You love to see it. Establishment politics have continually failed us and democrats are finally beginning to wake up to this reality. We’ll see how the leadership responds to Zohran’s win. I expect a challenge to this new progressive movement with hundreds of millions spent to keep the status quo in place. Establishment democrats are unwilling to fight for what they believe in until it impacts their campaign donations.
Cool, so we’re going to continue eating ourselves and applying purity tests to our candidates. That always works out for us.
Still not a single post about this election on r/democrats.
The fact that even discussion is shut down is very revealing.
All 128 collaborator Democrats should get primaried.
We need major changes in this Party.
You think they would wait to see if he actually wins the mayoral race. All he did was win the democrat spot against a washed-up Cuomo.
The DSA are the real controlled opposition
Such a gift to MAGA.
The entire progressive wing of the country hates the DNC and what they have become. They only get support because they are slightly better than Republicans.
I support this message.
Oooh this is so good!
Cuomo won’t have to worry about pronouncing Mamdani’s name now, since he’ll have to say Mr. Mayor lol
Looking forward to him not making good on his loft promises, him being called a liar and fake for making the promises, and the cycle beginning all over again.
Obama just told this generation to vote, he never told them to run for office.
destroy the democratic party and the progressives seem regressive
Remember: complaining online about things like the DNC or refusing to vote because your perfect candidate isn’t running won’t turn the Democratic party into what you want it to be. Showing up to primaries as well as other voting opportunities and challenging the seats of the politicians you don’t like will.
This is exactly when Progressives and Leftists need to be supporting and promoting their candidates in preparation for the primary season with an understanding a lot will lose for various reasons and how critical it is to vote for the best available option in November 2026.
I was really exhausted by all the complaints in the lead up to the 2024 election about the candidates from people who ignored the primaries.