Left-leaning challengers in the Rust belt are throwing chaos into a divided party struggling to rebuild after Trump’s win
From Detroit to Pennsylvania to Buffalo, New York, and here in Ohio, insurgent, progressive Democrats are defeating their long-established colleagues in dozens of school board, city council and mayoral races, throwing the already-divided national party into chaos, even as polls indicate it stands to potentially benefit at next year’s midterm elections due to the Trump administration’s divisive policies.
In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, one of seven swing states whose voters in recent years have decided the country’s presidential election, 37-year-old Jaime Arroyo was elected mayor on 4 November, becoming the first Latino mayor in the city’s 295-year history. In La Crosse, Wisconsin, another swing state, Shaundel Washington-Spivey, the city’s first Black and out gay mayor, beat a fellow Democratic party candidate with extensive local government experience last April.
Candidates such as Turner-Sloss, Arroyo and Washington-Spivey are campaigning on combating rising housing costs and providing better public transit infrastructure at a time when affordability issues and federal government policies are driving many working families into crisis.
I’m not saying Aim Low, I’m saying aim at the target, wherever it lands. Who are you accusing of moving right?
Harris. She started out somewhat progressive and was leading in the polls, and then she started campaigning with Liz Cheney and focus was on support from CEOs. I’m fairly sure that turn to the right contributed to her loss.
Her shit campaign team aside her policy stances included an unrealized gains tax on the rich, which alone could have changed course for this nation. This is a perfect example of the point I’m making, the DNC could theoretically be the most extreme radical left imaginable but people still wouldn’t notice.
She wasn’t extreme radical left, and went out of her way to appeal to the right. She refused to embrace even widely supported ideas like Medicare for All or condemning genocide. Mamdani, on the other hand, is unapologetically left, and won in a landslide.
Americans support far more progressive policies than many people believe, including themselves. Focus on policies that will help regular people, instead of the billionaires, and you will win.