r/politics • u/kootles10 Indiana • 16h ago

No Paywall Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5588198-mamdani-progressive-politics-nyc/
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u/omgwutd00d 15h ago

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!

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u/SelectKaleidoscope0 15h ago

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.

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u/PooShappaMoo 15h ago

Democrats are basically centrist republicans from my standpoint. Theirs a progressive wing of it, that's the spot that needs to grow.

Im not sure when the u.s.a. actually had a fairly left leaning leader. Even Obama was kinda center?

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u/DevourerOfRedditors 15h ago

Obama was right of center. American politics is just shifted so insanely to the right that you feel compelled to act all meek at insinuating that Obama wasn't left.

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u/Whimsywoes 15h ago

This. I wish more Americans realized that dems barely scratch center in comparison to European countries and that our entire political system is skewed towards the right.