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.
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.
Yes, actually, the vast majority of nuclear disarmament to date was done under Obama and by a series of treaties promising protection to countries who disarm (treaties which then get ignored by Republicans).
Biden and Obama, and democrat simple majority, also made the biggest investments to date into renewables and EVs.
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.
We can talk all day about ideal scenarios but at the end of the day you have two options: a decent person or a Republican, and if decent people don’t unite under one name on the ballot you will have a Republican.
There is not nor will there ever be a solution where the USA and only the USA disarms the entire nuclear arsenal. Thats just begging for the Apocalypse to start. We know Russia and China are restrained by nukes, emboldened by the lack thereof, we tested this theory in Ukraine.
You are the problem
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