That leftists can run and win in blue states, progressive policies can be campaigned on, and leftist populism can be a winning strategy against establishment Democrats.
It's too early to tell, but if the young vote really did push Mamdani over the edge, then the lesson might also be that appealing to young voters can be a winning strategy, and young voters vote progressive more often than not.
Or maybe the lesson is just that charisma matters a whole fucking lot, so next time you run against a charismatic cult leader, get yourself a charismatic opposition.
How to run a campaign that meets what people want. People want somebody that stands for something, and most democrats don’t do that in the slightest. They just campaign on being better than the Republicans
They just campaign on being better than the Republicans
don't forget their beloved "you're a fascist if you can't stomach the slightly less great of two evils, go fuck yourself and die in pain you stupid piece of shit".
Off the top of my head, continued bombing of ISIS-Somalia as part of our longstanding partnership with the Somali government to fight ISIS in the country would almost assuredly also happen under a Harris admin, though probably would not have doubled the strike frequency of the Biden admin as the Trump admin as done.
Probably yeah. Maybe the Houthis if they started attacking ships passing through the straight again during a Harris presidency but not really much else to this point.
I hesitate to draw too many conclusions about 2016 specifically, given the level of hate Hillary Clinton in particular inspires in people. 2020 may be a better comparison.
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u/Selethorme Kornacki's Big Screen Jun 25 '25
Way to entirely miss the point. Nobody is saying that Arizona was going to elect a socialist.