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.

  • switcheroo@lemmy.world
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    This is the chance for Dems to once again wrestle defeat from the jaws of victory.

    We need a better party. Dems are centrists; we need a progressive. One who won’t olive branch the traitor party.

    • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.ml
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      however, the government favors just the republicans and the democrats. if the us went for a parliamentary system (with an executive president, rather than a president and a prime minister), we would have a lot more options, and the progressives would win a bit more. seriously!

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      No you don’t. You’ll just split the vote.

      Americans are too stupid to collectively be aware of the problem

      Don’t fuck this up.

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      We need less Republicans, if you’ve got an actual plan to do that then great, if you don’t then step out of the way and let us elect the progressive DNC representatives.