People downplay Mamdani as “well sure, that plays in NYC, but there’s no way a progressive candidate could win nationwide” but there’s more to that story and it’s that for the first time in any election I can recall, young voters were the largest voting demographic. Usually they’re the smallest.
Progressive policies poll super highly nationwide. The more Democrats drift toward the center, the more unpopularly they poll—now with an approval rating worse than Trump. And since the centrists are running the show, they insist it’s because Democrats aren’t far enough to the right.
And as proof of this, they point to what right-wingers think about trans people and homeless people and etc and they say “we need to be more like Republicans because they’re winning!” Meanwhile 100,000,000 people don’t vote, and the winner of every election wins by like 5,000,000 votes.
People need to see evidence of other Mamdani-type candidates *win* in other places. I’d love to see James Talarico in TX win a statewide race. I miss Katie Porter. Mallory McMorrow is saying the right things. But there are *still* legions of Dems who claim “wE hAvE nO bENcH” and until you win them…