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.
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.