Left-leaning challengers in the Rust belt are throwing chaos into a divided party struggling to rebuild after Trump’s win
From Detroit to Pennsylvania to Buffalo, New York, and here in Ohio, insurgent, progressive Democrats are defeating their long-established colleagues in dozens of school board, city council and mayoral races, throwing the already-divided national party into chaos, even as polls indicate it stands to potentially benefit at next year’s midterm elections due to the Trump administration’s divisive policies.
In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, one of seven swing states whose voters in recent years have decided the country’s presidential election, 37-year-old Jaime Arroyo was elected mayor on 4 November, becoming the first Latino mayor in the city’s 295-year history. In La Crosse, Wisconsin, another swing state, Shaundel Washington-Spivey, the city’s first Black and out gay mayor, beat a fellow Democratic party candidate with extensive local government experience last April.
Candidates such as Turner-Sloss, Arroyo and Washington-Spivey are campaigning on combating rising housing costs and providing better public transit infrastructure at a time when affordability issues and federal government policies are driving many working families into crisis.
this phrasing is biased in a scare-mongering way
no, it’s not a monster driving fear into a few true Democrats
it’s Democrats with integrity resuming course against oligarch traitors who don’t belong in politics after sabotage to the american people time and time again
this is a long time coming and we applaud
“Some democrats aren’t asshole politicians finally. Here’s 17 reasons why that’s bad” - some shit rag in NY probably
I’m just saying, conservatives don’t complain about the nazis as much as democrats complain about progressives
democrats don’t complain about the nazis as much as democrats complain about progressives >:P
Because they literally agree with the Nazis, even if they don’t want to say it out loud
Why would “conservatives” complain about themselves?
I only ever see it the other way, progressives complaining about democrats not being pure enough, not being hardcore enough, while they don’t have to go actually campaign and win votes in those areas to understand why the democrats have to moderate themselves to appeal to actual voters.
I’ve never really seen any purity tests unless shit like ‘It would be nice if rich people had to obey the law’ is a purity test.
The people who complain about “purity tests” view “stop committing and assisting in genocide” as one.
Establishment Dems have spent too much time listening to the Conservative Propaganda Machine, and have come to believe that we are a right wing nation, and have become essentially the Republican-Lite Party.
Progressives are finally reminding the cowardly Establishment Dems that they owe their loyalty to the left, and it’s time to stop appeasing MAGAs.
If the Dems ever get our government back, it won’t be enough to be just another placeholder administration whose primary responsibility is to just mark time while the American people forget MAGAs treason and corruption, and let them cheat their way into power again.
MAGA is not a political party, it is an organized criminal entity disguised as a political party. The next time, the Dems have to show true courage, and ruthlessly purge MAGA from our government and our society, and prohibit any MAGA from ever holding office under 14A/S3.
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If they are progressive, then why are they scared of progressives running?
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They being the establishment Democrats. And working as a civilian at the local air force base isn’t exactly a red flag to me. I mean, I held my nose and voted for the DA. Even ignoring her policies on fracking and the campaign advice she was getting from her brother in law. The brother in law who is quite complicit in destroying the working class btw.
Anyway, here’s some nuance from Wikipedia concerning Turner-Sloss. Her backing by many progressive organizations. And how the establishment Democratic Party for the county conspired against her. They are the they I am referring too.
"Turner-Sloss was first elected in 2021, garnering about 29% of the votes in the 4-way general election.[13][15][16] She campaigned alongside incumbent commissioner Darryl Fairchild,[17] who finished in second and was re-elected to another term. In that election Turner-Sloss was endorsed by the Ohio Working Families Party,[18] Our Revolution Ohio, the Dayton chapter of the Sunrise Movement,[19] and other progressive organizations and labor unions including her own, the American Federation of Government Employees local 1138.[2]
Though a member of the Democratic Party, she has been considered “outside the establishment”.[20] She was not endorsed by the Montgomery County Democratic Party during any of her campaigns, including the successful one in 2021. In fact, the Montgomery County Democratic Party released attack ads against Turner-Sloss and Fairchild, for which the Ohio Democratic Party issued an apology, stating that the ads “violated several of their mailer policies.”.[21] The controversy resulted in the resignation of the county party’s Executive Director,[22] the retirement of the county party Chair,[23] and an official apology of the county party Central Committee which stated that “Commissioner Fairchild and candidate Turner-Sloss – and all their supporters – are valued members of the county party.”[22]
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Your parent comment got nine down votes and coupled with this one I’m going to just call it what it is, you were trolling.
So don’t act all surprised Pikachu that somebody is arguing with you.
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I mean, I find it hard to not read “the Dem establishment is scared” as a positive. Even if I’m seeing outside my own hatred for the establishment, disestablishmentarianism is generally a winning position in the US (Trumpism could succinctly be described as “dumb disestablishmentarianism”)
It’s pretty easy to convince people of when the status quo keeps sucking
This article more commentates on where The Guardian stands on this. It’s pretty obvious they are an establishment Democratic party supporter much like virtually every “liberal” media outlet in existence.
They will forget by election season.
I think most democrats have been voting for democrats while wishing they were more left. Voting for democrats hasn’t been about liking the candidates. It’s been more about disliking the opposing candidates.
This was indeed me for the last 20ish years. STAR voting or similar now, plz (and an end to gerrymandering)
It’s been more about disliking the opposing candidates.
This describes GOP/right-wing politics too. Nobody has the representation they actually want., before or after any election. It’s a mess.
One side was hammering on about terrorising minorities for years.
So yeah, if its a bad choice to avoid literal death threats from the government, a bad choice is better than death.
if its a bad choice to avoid literal death threats from the government, a bad choice is better than death.
What this sentiment always ignored, is there’s no reason it has to be a “bad choice” and shitty candidates aren’t good enough to consistently win.
Fucking wild people are still saying that in 2025 though
Imagine being equally as bad as the death threat party without also making death threats
Perhaps US can finally get what it deserves, a true left.
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The GOP got where it is today by repeatedly replacing establishment Republicans with more conservative republicans, until ‘right wing nutjob’ became the baseline. I no longer believe that replacing Republicans with corporate democrats will make things change. Slow the bleeding, maybe, but not change. Replacing corporate Democrats with progressives is the only way we’re going to move the needle now.
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Ah, yes, “left” like Chuck Schumer.
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If Chuck Schumer were replaced last election, what would have changed?
We’d have had one fewer senator organizing the Dem capitulation caucus. We’d have also had one fewer senator capitulating to Trump in March. Maybe, just maybe, someone willing to fucking do anything about Trump would’ve been in office. Also if he was replaced in, say, 2019 there would have been one fewer pro-genocide reactionary voting to give Israel everything it wants.
and with even a simple majority so much suffering would be completely avoided.
*Delayed. It would’ve been delayed, just as it was in 2020, because that’s the thing: Democrats don’t fucking do anything. Their favorite excuse is the filibuster, but they can just get rid of it. It’s literally that simple. Whether this is incompetence or malice (though it’s obviously the latter), the Democratic establishment needs to go before anything resembling progress can happen. You’ll never get fewer Republicans if their competition is Joe “nothing will fundamentally change” Biden or Kamala “most lethal army in the world” Harris. Trump is the result of 50 years of Democrats gargling corporate balls is Trump, and you’ll never get rid of Trump if you don’t do something about the corporate balls.
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DNC have had 48 or often less seats for over 10 years.
And is that because they’re terrible at winning or because they don’t want to win? Take your pick. Either way they need to go.
The last time the DNC had a real majority, not even a supermajority, was the most productive congress in decades.
And they used that opportunity to pass checks notes Romneycare. So productive.
Dems have spent decades taxing corporations and limiting their ability to influence politics and they get no credit for that endless uphill battle.
If they’ve spent decades fighting that “battle” and this is the result, maybe they’re not actually fighting at all.
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Schumer and any other dem is still better than any Republican
Yes, but that’s an irresponsibly low bar. Aim higher.
Schumer hasn’t done nearly enough to oppose Trump and spends more effort supporting genocide and opposing his own party. Like why the fuck was he siding with Trump against Mamdani?
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Aiming low also doesn’t accomplish anything if the candidate doesn’t win, and we’ve seen too many candidates lose after moving to the right.
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Let me know when Dems stop fighting actual leftists (the ones fully against capitalism, not the ones that think giving poor people crumbs while flying a pride flag is good enough)
Well, if incumbent Dems don’t do their job and perform as a working opposition, its the peoples’ right to find some who actually represent the voters.
progressive Democrats
That’s a contradiction
Really? Bernie Sanders, AOC, or Illhan Omar aren’t a historical representation of progressive Democrats?
Bernie is an independent, he just caucuses with Democrats
Do they call for dismantling the nuclear arsenal and banning all carbon fuels (the two biggest existential threats to all life on earth)?
I’m talking about progressives, not center-left.
That’s always been the left’s weakness: not knowing when a battle not yet taken constitutes a fundamental undermining of the claim about progressiveness. Some battles are going to have to be saved for a future generation. Let’s focus on securing the winnable battles today: universal health-insurance (Luigi wouldn’t be a folk hero today if it were what we had) and decarbonization (that took a huuuge leap in the last few years with how accessible solar power is now). The grandkids can work on de-nucularization.
What? Why not both?
Stop thinking like a Democrat. If you move to the right, you’ll loose the vote. Be a proud progressive, and people will be ecstatic to vote for you
Okay? Here’s what it actually is. Nuclear missiles have defensive uses that make them still useful, and it’ll probably take a while longer for us to decide how to maintain their utility while also ending the threat of a nuclear apocalypse.
How do nuclear warheads have life-saving utility beyond being a doomsday device? Well, we probably need to launch a nuclear missile to bomb asteroid 2024 YR4 within the next few years to push it off course so it doesn’t hit the moon, which would throw up a bunch of big debris that would fall to Earth and kill a bunch of people. Maybe not planet-killing debris, but city-killing probably.
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Don’t spread misinformation.
Biden and Obama both supported the continued burning of fossil fuels and keeping the nuclear arsenal.
EVs and reducing the nukes is not a solution. We need a progressive who will end it. Now.
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You are the problem
So, it’s all or nothing? Don’t take any victories unless you’re guarunteed to take every victory?
BlueMAGA flavored “progressives”. How wonderful LMBO
Wtf is lmbo
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lick my butt off
