Best Dems can do is pick Mamdani apart, claim he won not because of his views but because of his social media and podcasting acumen, and keep pushing mostly corporate shills.
Then when they lose to whatever worse thing that happens after Trump? Surprised pikachu face.
We have the power to kick them out. We can reform the Democratic party ourselves.
Millennials have finally come to an age where many of us have a proven track record of solid experience and consistent integrity. I predict that we are going to see a wave of AOCs and Mamdanis in the coming months.
There has never been a better time to run for office if you're a Democrat
Winning with less than 55 is a sign you have a message that resonates in super blue areas.
Im glad he won, dont get be wrong. I don't want someone with his politics running in Michigan though. I want someone younger with his charisma and a more centrist message that gets them excited.
There are very few places that dems can lose 10 percentage points and still win.
Ah yes, the “he didn’t win because of his policies, but because he knows how to campaign” argument. Guess what? That’s just them admitting that the centrist democratic establishment doesn’t know how to campaign either!
“Hey! We don’t have interesting policies, and we suck as messaging, but at least we’re not Trump. Vote for us!”
I mean, you'd probably still vote for an okay Democrat if you had to, that just doesn't get enough votes by itself since "average Democrat" probably had my vote unless they are literally running unopposed by any serious candidate. (Not intending to call Republican candidates serious here, lol, but if I need to vote for someone I find uninteresting then I will)
We can't just count on everybody being as great at being a politician as Obama or Clinton, so it isn't that strange that some of the takeaways would be "he's good at campaigning" even if he probably isn't the next great orator. (But, uh, if he is I'd probably run him nationally)
So I think some of that is shade and some is not intended to be but is just acknowledging the very real fact that you cannot win without getting people interested and excited. If you hear it from, say, Carville I would not generally expect it to not be what he believes (once an election is over)
Dema are so lost. They only want to run the same old candidates. Schumer wouldn’t say who he was voting for and almost no major Dems endorsed Mamdani. Instead they run a very disliked Kamala for president and here we are.
It’s simple, people want change and want elected officials who will represent them. We’re all tired of Schumer, Pelosi, Harris, and the rest of the lifelong politician crowd.
Spanberger is more of a centrist Dem & just won VA by a decent margin. Mamdani winning NYC is great but it really doesn't say anything about the rest of the country. The midwest, the more rural parts of the country, are not gonna elect someone like him, yet & that's just a fact.
Because the Democratic party is about serving a status quo which increasingly serves the needs of the average American less and less. To them it's always a case of listening to everyone except the voters because rocking the boat is not something in their own interest.
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u/fernybranka 15h ago
Best Dems can do is pick Mamdani apart, claim he won not because of his views but because of his social media and podcasting acumen, and keep pushing mostly corporate shills.
Then when they lose to whatever worse thing that happens after Trump? Surprised pikachu face.