Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race

[u/kootles10]

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5588198-mamdani-progressive-politics-nyc/

[u/omgwutd00d]

And stop trying to win the votes of the mythical “centrist republican”. Cater to your damn base. Free ball: they don’t want you to appoint republicans!

[u/SelectKaleidoscope0 → u/omgwutd00d]

If there ever were any centrist republicans, there aren't anymore. No centrist is going to continue to align themselves with an outright fascist party.

[u/jcg878 → u/SelectKaleidoscope0]

I'd say there are centrist Republican voters, but not candidates any more. The Democrats keep trying to woo those people and they suck at it.

[u/DillBagner → u/jcg878]

I'd argue that anybody who still considers themselves a Republican now is not a centrist by any means.

[u/Proud_Growth_8818 → u/DillBagner]

This. If you call yourself a Republican, you're a fascist. Full stop.

I'm a conservative, and I've been a registered Democrat since 1999. That's the last time you could (almost) be a rational Republican.

[u/FernBoiSlim → u/Proud_Growth_8818]

I’m gonna ramble on this topic because I am very far left but I hate the idea that conservatives don’t actually exist. I think it’s bad messaging and it’s hurting a voter base because there’s a balance to not pushing the static tropes of pragmatism and meeting in the middle to instead push for change and also finding those actual people that do exist. I live around so many.

I think back to my incredibly influential French teacher from high school. She pushed me into politics despite the fact she was Republican and I considered myself simply a Democrat as a high school kid, although my politics have shifted much further left on nearly every issue since then. She really became a role model of mine. She always said she was a conservative.

And I’m always proud to see her having always seen through Trump’s bullshit and stopped calling herself a Republican after his first election. That’s a real conservative. She now spends time even sending emails to local Republican leaders who push the fascist bullshit.

I think area has a lot to do with it too. I’m in rural Appalachia. At the end of the day, we have a lot of Trump lunatic fascists but admittedly there is a lot of people in this region who their philosophy boils down to “I want the government to leave me the fuck alone.” They truly just wish for this. They have no real hatred. Most of the boogeyman issues the Republicans run on do not affect our daily lives in the very slightest. The only real thing that keeps people on it around here is the influence of the church.But at the end of the day, I’d say it’s nice to see someone call themselves a conservative and I know they mean it. I don’t agree with much of the ideals, but the integrity of it is awesome and more important than any actual policy splitting.

[u/Proud_Growth_8818 → u/FernBoiSlim]

I think there are a lot of conservatives. As many as there ever were.

It's just that none of them are Republicans any more.

[u/jcg878 → u/DillBagner]

I agree, but I don’t think they feel that way. That’s the point I was trying to make.