Sweeping Democratic victories in off-year elections seem to be foreshadowing a very good midterms for the party, and one expert believes it’s even bigger than that.
“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fundamentally transform legislative power,” Heather Williams, president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC), which focuses on electing Democrats to statehouses, told Mother Jones.
every other year we got once in a generation elections
I fell like Every American presidential election in my life has been advertised as the most important of all time.
If there’s a way, no matter how small, for the Dems to squander this opportunity and wrestle defeat from the jaws of victory, they will leave no bland page of the most moderate and uninspiring speech unread to a near empty chamber.
My thoughts exactly. I can’t wait to see the controlled opposition “accidentally” fumble a guaranteed win.
Schumer’s and Jefferies are currently working directly against Democrats abilities to storm into a majority. If you only have the ability to lead in fair weather and favorable winds, you don’t have the ability to lead.
These two in particular are doing material damage to Democrats abilities to barnstormer November.
I am waiting to see what will be the excuse of dem votes to not vote one more time.
But the dems won’t do shit
Kamala wants to run again.
Newsom sees himself as a frontrunner.
Mamdami isn’t recognized by Dems and they can’t figure out why he won.
The Democrats continued to drop their balls when they folded after the gov strike.
Yeah we’re looking at another shit year. They’ll just fund ICE less now.
Clinton/Harris 2028
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You got me on that one. For a brief second till I saw the snark tag. Well played.
Yeah, I hope Clinton/Harris was snark.
Even if they win every election they will find a reason not to do anything
Probably, my questions would pertian to what wealth could you get a majority of the population to agree on taxing, and how much.
It’s easy to say “I think we should put in wealth taxes” it’s hard to get people to agree that above $x dollars and for y% is what would be needed. Many Democrats would agree on wealth tax of 10% over $300 million. A lot of progressives would say that is far to little and to high starting entry, but if you shift those numbers lower/higher you would lose chunks of the population agreeing, and ultimately destroy the possibility of it being started. Which to be honest getting it instituted first, then modifying it seems like the easier thing to do, than launch i high enough tax to fix the issues up front. You’ll lose all the corporate democracts, and essentially have 25% voting for it at that point… making it a dead end
Too bad the leadership are feckless losers.
They are paid to be so.
Imagine thinking that legit elections are on the way.
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This would require a complete shift change in leadership long before the races begins. Democratic leadership is still polling at historic lows and they’re dragging the part down with them. A bluenami has already been knee capped by Scumers and Jefferies disgusting weakness, cuckolded by both power and influence.
Absolutely the conditions are ripe. but it requires excellent communication, strategy, a bold vision for the fight that can actually galvanized the base that Democrats have worked so hard to erode.
I’m sure they’ll snatch defeat from the jaws of victory again, or squander the opportunity to make real gains with any win.
The d’s really have a lot to learn from maga. MAGA created plans (project 2025, project 2026) that they started actualizing immediately after Trump won. Where are the d’s project 2029?
They have a page outlining their platform on the website, and it’s actually a really good plan, but it’s kind of hard when the DNC have had 48 seats or less for over a decade and since some of the stuff has been ruled unconstitutional by the SCOTUS, such as the Citizens United decision, they’re going to need to pass constitutional amendments which require 2/3rds majorities.
And they’ll bust it with their tried and tested method for failure: trying to court the right by moving right and abandoning leftist causes.
abandoning leftist causes
Actively opposing leftist causes
Dems put more effort into opposing Mamdani than they did into prosecuting Trump over J6 💀
They have this chance, yes. I hope they’re able to capitalize on it. But, I know Schumer and the geriatric democrats have an uncanny way of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Only if progressives throw their hats into the primaries in 2026.
I’ve seen a disturbing lack of progressives readying up to kick out establishment dems, just like every year.
Dems broke their spirit.
MAGA took over the republicans without bitching that it was hopeless.
The Tea Party gave Repubs the courage to be the racist Christofascists they already were, the left side of American politics is far less homogeneous.
The Tea Party and MAGA also had billionaire funding.
Yah this. The idea that an organic, grassroots movement can overcome current oligarch control over media and politics is nonsense. Ever since Citizens United and all the prior consolidations of power (Nixon, Gingrich, Patriot Act, etc.), there is no fighting back for the common man, even en masse. There are protests as large as 14M people and it had no effect on politicians, revolution should have already happened, but politicians are ignoring the call. They are hell bent on answering only to Billionaires. I really think there’s only one solution left and it’s right here in a quote from JFK: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
Apparently we can limit Citizens United at the state level, or at least there are efforts currently being put into place to do so. If each state managed to implement their own caps on Citizens United then that would go a long ways towards giving power back to the people.
I feel that the largest amount of hope lies in increasing the amount of social programs in Blue States, like New Mexico is doing.
The idea that an organic, grassroots movement can overcome current oligarch control over media and politics is nonsense.
It has happened in many other countries, and I don’t believe in American exceptionalism.
JFK has a lot to teach us about how politicians should be treated.
A wide ranging peaceful protest movement with specific legislative goals such as the Civil Rights Act.
And when that doesn’t work, it’s time to touch grass. Lots of grassy knolls are available if people are motivated.
MAGA did not try to upend the pro-buisness nature of the Republican party. MAGA and old school republicans serve the same masters.
Progressive reformers have a much steeper hill to climb, as it would require a near-total destruction of the Democratic Party status quo in order to effect meaningful change.
Both D and R politicians are deeply addicted to dark money donations; we have legalized bribery and corruption. Ending this addiction, even in one party, is not a small, simple act- it is a revolution.
A revolution sounds pretty damn good right about now.
Yep. All it ever is is excuses.
“Your father and I support the jobs the comet will provide”
Weber is that quote from?
Don’t Look Up. Good, but frustrating in a way too real way, movie.
