Democrats are still wringing their hands over 2024 and opining about how the party must change. Mamdani has given them a blueprint. My prediction is that it will be ignored and we’ll keep losing. 🫤
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I hope that you’re wrong but I’m afraid that you’re not. It’s time for candidates to bypass party politics. Build grassroots support like this guy did.
jun 29, 2025, 4:46 pm • 59 0 • view
100%!
jun 29, 2025, 4:53 pm • 15 0 • view
I really really hope not….
jun 29, 2025, 5:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Mamdani is not a blueprint, he is a human being and the qualities that make him the electrifying candidate he is are his alone. We don't need cookie cutter we need unique individuals with their own exciting takes.
jun 29, 2025, 5:48 pm • 7 0 • view
Point taken. I meant more his “style.” The grassroots campaigning.Getting in front of people & really listening. Using social media to create excitement & reach young voters. Presenting actual solutions. As opposed to raking in corp. $ and regurgitating talking points that are no longer relevant.
jun 29, 2025, 6:25 pm • 1 0 • view
I understand. I'm sure those things helped him win TBH they weren't a consideration for me until now. Once I looked into him and found him to be a citykid who knows what's up I had no problem ranking him. The youth vote is no surprise to me and I credit that to him not his style.
jun 29, 2025, 8:00 pm • 2 0 • view
By “exciting takes” you mean actual meaningful policy for working class people with an intention to deliver it, correct? It needs to not be about simply winning, but improving lives.
jun 29, 2025, 10:02 pm • 2 0 • view
No, I don't mean that. I'm not talking about winning or losing, nor about policy. You sound a bit defensive about my comment so I'm sorry if I rubbed you the wrong way.
jun 29, 2025, 10:54 pm • 1 0 • view
so let's do what we can to be helpful...
jun 30, 2025, 4:02 am • 0 0 • view
You are right. Democrats are Republican lite.
jun 29, 2025, 5:26 pm • 2 0 • view
I wish I thought you were wrong … 😑
jun 29, 2025, 5:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Me, too.
jun 29, 2025, 5:24 pm • 1 0 • view
The established Democrats will not do the right thing and support him. Look what they did to President Biden.
jun 29, 2025, 4:37 pm • 2 0 • view
That whole situation was a gigantic clusterf*ck and there’s plenty of blame to go around. But none of them are willing to take it; just alot of wasting time finger-pointing.
jun 29, 2025, 4:56 pm • 2 0 • view
You mean the dinosaurs? I am praying - yes actually praying for those dinosaurs to let the young-uns take the reins! We need young blood running things and heading committees! Bernie is a unicorn- he gets to stay.
jun 29, 2025, 4:47 pm • 1 0 • view
LOL! I agree re: Bernie. And a few others, like Elizabeth Warren. The old guard just doesn’t understand that the rules have changed. Our opponents flagrantly ignore the law and Dems are still tsk-tsking at them like they’re unruly toddlers who will eventually learn their lesson. They won’t.
jun 29, 2025, 4:52 pm • 1 0 • view
I have to wonder if no maga has ever read a historical fiction. What we are witnessing is play by play fascism. Same story over and over. I know i am preaching to the choir, but it so frustrating when people i thought were intelligent and well read are cult followers!!
jun 29, 2025, 6:25 pm • 2 0 • view
It doesn’t matter how well-read and intelligent they may be: Racism is ingrained and seems to inform everything they do. Sure, they may want better pay, better healthcare and democracy. But they want cruelty to immigrants more, apparently.
jun 29, 2025, 7:56 pm • 1 0 • view
I hope you are wrong about that. Can't just talk trash about the other party candidate...must run on a message.
jun 29, 2025, 5:04 pm • 1 0 • view
They don’t want the same things. It is for voters to change, not the party who only serves their wealthy donors.
jun 29, 2025, 10:00 pm • 2 0 • view
I don't see anyone wringing their hands over Biden dropping out too late to run a primary. It was a mess, but we didn't have a say in it.
jun 29, 2025, 4:23 pm • 3 0 • view
Just Jake Tapper.
jun 29, 2025, 4:25 pm • 4 0 • view
Yup. Plenty of Monday Morning Quarterbacking to be had with that situation. But ultimately, there SHOULD have been a primary. Biden SHOULD have stepped aside far sooner, Nancy Pelosi SHOULD have had the talk with him a year earlier. Lots of mistakes; very little ownership.
jun 29, 2025, 5:00 pm • 8 0 • view
It should have been the plan the day he won in 2020.
jun 29, 2025, 5:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Like he promised. One term.
jun 29, 2025, 5:22 pm • 5 0 • view
This is how I know you are a liar
jun 29, 2025, 5:32 pm • 0 0 • view
What about that statement was a lie? Biden DID say he’d only be a 1-term president.
jun 29, 2025, 5:48 pm • 0 0 • view
No he did not
jun 29, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Nope he never did it was implied off the record by members of the campaign
jun 29, 2025, 8:38 pm • 2 0 • view
My apologies. You are, indeed, both correct. It was his aides (unnamed,’natch) that IMPLIED he would be a bridge president. When I’m wrong, I say it. Thanks for setting me straight.
jun 29, 2025, 10:01 pm • 3 0 • view
Ok; I’ll own it if that’s what everyone cares about! Let’s just think about how we use what we DO OWN—more supporters than MAGA has!
jun 29, 2025, 5:32 pm • 1 0 • view
less bitching more doing one small thing every day at a minimum all of us donate, converse, write, call, volunteer.... something every damn day
jun 30, 2025, 4:06 am • 1 0 • view
Look, I don’t have all the answers but what you said is right. There are more people against Trump than FOR him. But how do we get them to care enough to vote?
jun 29, 2025, 5:52 pm • 1 0 • view
I think it was trygve olson (maybe erica chenowith) who said talk to them, and, importantly, listen to them. in the grocery line on the bus at the garden party at the PTA connect
jun 30, 2025, 4:07 am • 3 0 • view
or, as Mother Teresa used to say, "Ek, ek, ek," which (I was told) is Hindi for "One by one by one." also: "You must act as if it all depends on you. Then leave the rest to God." I'm not religious, but she knew things about getting shit done.
jun 30, 2025, 4:08 am • 1 0 • view
I wish we would create a shadow govt and each of our “cabinet” and other officials would responsible pushing our message daily in response to the nonsense that comes from the White House. Daily.
jun 29, 2025, 9:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Racism and misogyny lost that election (and some ballot interference) not Joe Biden’s decision. We would have won the election if not for humanity’s worst instincts being aroused.
jun 29, 2025, 5:15 pm • 7 0 • view
Can’t disagree. And at the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to learn the 2024 election actually WAS stolen.
jun 29, 2025, 5:26 pm • 5 0 • view
There is no doubt. Musk was openly cheating.
jun 29, 2025, 5:45 pm • 3 0 • view
You should start following some leftists then. If you’re getting the takes late it’s because you aren’t talking to the right people.
jun 29, 2025, 10:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Nothing wrong with the party since 2024 was stolen by musk for trump! Payoffs r us!
jun 29, 2025, 5:38 pm • 1 0 • view