This part! With a Democratic Socialist as the mayor of NYC and another likely to win the mayorship of LA, it’s very good news for a grassroots progressive movement. The fact that Democratic Socialists are able to hold such big offices is a sign of the Overton window shifting, we just gotta keep up the momentum and keep electing local and state level progressives.
Those wins aren’t as flashy in the headlines but they matter massively in the long run.
It’s going to show gains exponentially, but like you said it’s not flashy, and media has an incentive to downplay it.
They’ll keep saying Dems are “over performing” but this is just the natural result of trying to win as many seats as possible.
We spent decades where neoliberal chairs wanted a Dem president, but enough Republicans in congress that meaningful progress wouldn’t be made.
It’s not “over performing”, just what happens when the party actually tries to get Dems elected instead of enforcing their policy on everyone with a D by their name.
None of this is surprising, it’s all right on track to FDR 2.0
We just can’t skip the shitty parts, or people won’t realize we need FDR 2.0 enough to vote for them when we get the chance.
This part! With a Democratic Socialist as the mayor of NYC and another likely to win the mayorship of LA, it’s very good news for a grassroots progressive movement. The fact that Democratic Socialists are able to hold such big offices is a sign of the Overton window shifting, we just gotta keep up the momentum and keep electing local and state level progressives.
Those wins aren’t as flashy in the headlines but they matter massively in the long run.
We’re only a year deep too:
https://democrats.org/news/dnc-and-asdc-announces-organize-everywhere-win-anywhere-strategy-largest-ever-monthly-dnc-investment-into-democratic-state-and-territory-parties/
It’s going to show gains exponentially, but like you said it’s not flashy, and media has an incentive to downplay it.
They’ll keep saying Dems are “over performing” but this is just the natural result of trying to win as many seats as possible.
We spent decades where neoliberal chairs wanted a Dem president, but enough Republicans in congress that meaningful progress wouldn’t be made.
It’s not “over performing”, just what happens when the party actually tries to get Dems elected instead of enforcing their policy on everyone with a D by their name.
None of this is surprising, it’s all right on track to FDR 2.0
We just can’t skip the shitty parts, or people won’t realize we need FDR 2.0 enough to vote for them when we get the chance.