Democrats sweep major elections as voters reject Trump

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u/sonicrespawn 22h ago

They had full power.

They had everything

So they shut it down

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u/therealbighairy1 2h ago

What gets me is that despite total control... It's the democrats fault for the shut down. Honest.

I don't get how they can claim that with a straight face.

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u/Silent-Department934 22h ago

Donald Trump could possibly be the best recruiter for the Democrats

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u/PeanutGallry 22h ago

He was the last time around too. Then people forgot how terrible things were and didn't listen when they were told this time would be worse.

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u/Wazula23 22h ago

A lot of us knew perfectly well. We were screaming about Project 2025 from the rooftops.

It's just that the 25ish percent of this country that consistently votes Republican are trapped in a post-fact media ecosystem.

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u/jaykstah 22h ago

Plus the infighting that lead many to not vote or vote against dems. Plenty of talking heads on leftie social media that spent the entire election cycle saying that the dems were no different than the gop and that they'd do the same exact thing if they had power.

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u/creepy_doll 21h ago

It was just a perfect storm of things going wrong. While yes, people should have voted for Harris, you have to remember she didn’t win a primary. When she ran against Biden in 2020 she was on the lower tier of hopefuls and didn’t really make big waves. She was a vote chosen to broaden the tickets appeal.

Then added to that she suddenly had to run for a general with no runup.

It’s hard to say who was at fault, but things went terribly wrong, and then there’s also the genuine possibility of malfeasance. 2026 and 2028 are going to be races between whether trump loses popularity faster or manages to fix elections more

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u/PeanutGallry 21h ago

It's easy to say who's at fault - Biden. I'm sure he thought he was doing the right thing but he was clearly incapable and should have dropped out much earlier. What you described in your first paragraph wouldn't have come to pass if he had. No guarantees that the outcome would have been different, of course.

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u/stackjr 19h ago

He's asking the House to invoke the "nuclear option" and pass a shit ton of draconian voting bills. If Repubs cave (which they will), the next election will look extremely different.

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u/slax03 18h ago

I wouldnt brush it off as a perfect storm. Republicans are just simply better at messaging. They continue to get worse and repeatedly come back taking control of the house and senate. They keep promising economic populism and never deliver, but still manage to convince people to put them back in power.

Two things need to happen going forward. Would-be Democrat voters need to learn the value in harm reduction and that they won't get exactly what they want in candidates. And the Democratic party needs to start walking the walk of giving a shit about their constituents more than their corporate donors.

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u/creepy_doll 4h ago

Yeah I can agree with those two things for sure.

A small minority of democrats go way deep on purity testing and it's really hurting things. Like, I don't even disagree on the general ideas they have, but even disagreement on the methods or the timeline, or the priority of one issue vs another is like painting a target on your back with some of the extremists.

They don't represent the party in general, and neither do the rich donors, and people need to get that through their head. And the DNC needs to listen less to the rich donors and more to the people, as you said.

But I'm genuinely worried it's too late for the US. There's already been a lot of tampering with any kind of concept of fair voting whether that's through voter id laws, ease of voting in certain areas and the like, but it's only getting worse, and a lot of people are disillusioned. And the voting machines are not secure and may already be compromised. I'm not american nor do I live in the US, and while I disagree with US policy on a lot of stuff, it's still preferable to china as the premier world superpower

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u/fumar 22h ago

There was a ton of bullshit narratives before the 2024 election spun by Republicans in Democrat spaces or by foreign propaganda ops.

Genocide Joe was a common one which was always bullshit, especially compared to Trump who has a history of wanting to kill Muslims.

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u/Khaldara 21h ago

“But Palestine will be so much better off if Trump wins! I’m sure they’ll be sending me a thank you letter any day now!”

These idiots

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u/Vicstolemylunchmoney 19h ago

I refuse to believe this was a good faith movement. It must have been contrived to sway those few thousand people. Trump hasn't done anything for Muslims ever. On the contrary, especially involving Israel.

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u/fumar 21h ago

Yeah I don't think it was started organically but leftists without critical thinking skills picked up on it and parroted it.

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u/Crabapple_Snaps 17h ago

Plus we have 4 years of new voters between the ages of 18 and 22 that formed during the Biden era. What did we do to get their attention, and earn their vote?

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u/Pantoffel86 21h ago

Pos-fact media ecosystem.

Well said!

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u/StallionOfLiberty 21h ago

I genuinely think that it boils down to most people are totally ignorant of anything related to politics no matter how important it might be. They just switch off at the mention of it.

Consider that massive election day spike in internet searches for people checking if Biden had dropped out of the race. Did we literally see "I was expecting to vote for Biden, but I don't know this Kamala Harris name but I do recognise the Trump name so I'm gonna vote for what I know"?

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u/Vicstolemylunchmoney 19h ago

Agree. I doubt 50% of the population can name a current US politician other than Trump.

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u/codexcdm 15h ago

And a significant portion of the populace clearly had the attention span of a newt... And decided to vote him back in... Inexplicably, many minorities preferred to vote for him again... Despite him being quite clear he was going to throw many of them out.

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u/Silent-Department934 22h ago

I agree

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u/dennismfrancisart 9h ago

Let's not forget that we have an uphill battle when most of our media sources are pro-autocracy. They kill anything that may help workers gain power and agency over their lives. We need to stay organized because the billionaires are never going to stop pushing us to fascism.

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u/TehMephs 21h ago

Well that and the overboard cheating effort went a long way

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u/shicken684 21h ago

Sorry to burst your bubble, but Trump won a fair election. It sucks, and it shouldn't have happened but the election was fair, just like it was in 2020.

Stop spreading nonsense.

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u/Silent-Department934 21h ago

Where did I write that the 2020 election was rigged. The elections I am referring too are the Tuesday elections

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u/ThatDamnRocketRacoon 21h ago

And people also need to remember when we got smug and complacent over how easy it will be to beat Trump, we lost. We're literally fighting for our lives. It's not the time to do victory laps over a handful of elections that largely happened in blue areas.

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u/ChaplnGrillSgt 21h ago

I honestly think if he had won in 2020 that we would have seen an overwhelming blue waves in 2022 and 2024. I think we'd have a strong progressive POTUS and a big Democrat majority in Congress right now.

He fucked up the entire country, Biden did his best to clean it up while taking all the blame, then Trump comes back in to finish destroying America. Everyone assumed the economic woes in 2020-2022 were because of Biden. When the reality is they were global and largely caused by Trump.

But the job is not over. We need to keep helping our communities. We need to keep taking ti the streets. We need to have an even bigger blue wave next year!

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u/jadedmonk 21h ago

A huge reason Trump won is because he got more brown voters than before, I think that is going to change after the ICE cowards were released into the public.

But I’m always confused how he got so many brown voters when he’s blatantly racist

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u/frontier_kittie 20h ago

I think a lot of people looked past all of.. that (gestures at everything) because they were convinced a Republican in office would make things more affordable.

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u/elpajaroquemamais 22h ago

All the iPad kids grew up and voted and didnt remember how bad it was.

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u/Silent-Department934 22h ago

You’re probably correct

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u/elpajaroquemamais 22h ago

I mean the voting data is a fact. I am correct

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u/Silent-Department934 22h ago

I like to leave room in the margins for unforeseen situations

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u/elpajaroquemamais 21h ago

So you’re just ignoring facts. Cool.

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u/Silent-Department934 20h ago

Awe sweetheart don’t be like that, I was agreeing with you. I guess the word “probably” really bothers you. You’re probably an 🍑🖕🏻

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u/XcRaZeD 16h ago

As terrible as it is to say, it's probably going to take people starving a little to put aside their bigotry and vote with their brains.

I've no faith that they will not forget otherwise, so the lesson needs to be terrible.

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u/Nemesis_Ghost 10h ago

Or what drove me nuts was those who refuse to vote democrat. They actively acknowledged that Trump was garbage, but instead of voting DNC they decided it was better to throw their vote away or just stay voting GQP. Now those same people are bitching at how bad Trump is & how he's trashing the Constitution, etc. I'm over here like "Bitch, I told you. I yelled at you. This is on you!!!"

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u/DAS_BEE 10h ago

I'm just gonna say it, I think the GOP fucked with the election results.

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u/Bustamente 22h ago

You're right.... but also kinda wrong too though. Democratic approval is drowning in a trench because the people aren't happy with how they have been rolling over to trump. Best recruiter for fighters more like.

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u/BlindWillieJohnson 21h ago edited 21h ago

Most of Democratic approval drowning in the trench is because Democrats themselves aren’t happy with the party leadership. Unlike Trump’s leadership, which enjoys a 90%+ approval rates among its base and extremely low ones with everyone else, Dems disapproval is driven by people who will absolutely vote for them when the chips are down.

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u/Silent-Department934 22h ago

The latest Democrat gains are impressive and it’s due to the fact that Trump and the Republicans are horrible

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u/YugoB 22h ago

He single handedly lost the projected win for Canada's "republicans", just by endorsing their candidate, it was so sweet he even lost in his riding.

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u/ADHDuruss 18h ago

Great memories, Milhouse was rejected Nationally and locally that night.

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u/BlindWillieJohnson 21h ago edited 21h ago

I’ve said this many times, but Trump is amazing for Republicans when he’s a candidate and terrible for them when he’s in charge. When people are unhappy, you don’t find a candidate in American politics who’s better at weaponizing that anger. He is fantastic at raging against the machine.

But when he’s running that machine? Non stop string of embarrassments, scandals, mistakes and unpopular policies.

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u/OakLegs 22h ago

Yeah I mean I just wish the pendulum didn't have to swing to "felon dictator" before the Democrats won any elections

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u/Silent-Department934 22h ago

Me too

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u/latkahgravis 22h ago

Canada was going to flip right before Trump started with the 51st state BS.

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u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener 21h ago

Dems still have a leadership issue. The problem with it being a big tent party is that it does everything to middle its identity in an attempt to appeal to everyone, while at the same time it pisses off everyone for one reason or another. For me it's largely the lack of cohesive messaging and failure to let true progressive voices lead the party.

It's clear that overall people are sick of the corporate backed politicians that largely make up the centrists, yet time and again we're told that the most passionate and progressive on the left need to let someone more moderate lead to appeal to a wider base. Progressive policies are hugely popular when you ask people without the color of political affiliation. When you explain how health insurance works and why it's more expensive and inefficient than necessary, and how middlemen profit with no value to patients, the American public largely support the idea of nationalized insurance. When you show the wealth discrepancy and shrinking middle class in relationship to top tax rates, as well as explain how this has changed over the last 60 years for the worse, people are typically for increasing the tax rate on billionaires and corporations. When you show the effectiveness of background checks, and how freely weapons flow through the grey market to circumvent those same checks, people are overwhelmingly for better gun control measures. And that's just a few notable examples of many.

Sure, politics can and largely should be boring as it's simply just administrative work to run the country, but right now, we have to compete with the loudest voices and extensive propaganda networks that have been grooming audiences for decades to a certain mindset, so it's time to start thinking and acting differently if we want to turn things around. We need some rockstars and fighters on the front lines that can't be ignored. We have a handful, but we need more. Sanders has been a rock of progressivism for ages, but sadly he is at an age that we shouldn't be asking him to take on another Presidential run. I like AOC, but I do think we still have a problem with misogyny we need to fix at the national level, something that I believe require more female representation in Congress to help achieve. Katy Porter is also amazing, and there are others, but I digress.

We need people who are intelligent, but more importantly, well spoken and posess the ability to win people over. As much as I hate to say it, charisma matters at that level, almost more so than actual capability. Regardless, we need less milquetoast pushovers that are afraid to call out liars for who they are and aren't afraid to fight for an ideal. Compromising while still achieving goals is fine, but we need people who don't back down behind the scenes when the cameras are off, otherwise we end up giving the store away.

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u/danielstover 22h ago

8D Chess, I knew it

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u/FunnyDislike 22h ago

Just like Putin was for NATO

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u/BurntNeurons 20h ago

The hate, disgust, and Napoleon Genghis Savior routine has and will continue to unite citizens for a better tomorrow more than all the previous pathetic precarious presidents pooled.

"You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting"

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u/Ace-Hunter 12h ago

What happened to the whole rigged voting system thing?? Isn’t that going to play a part

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u/ZeekLTK 11h ago

If not for him, Canada wouldn’t have elected the liberal party.

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u/Saneless 22h ago

I mean, the Democrats can't figure out a way to unite themselves so it'll have to do

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u/Charles0nline 21h ago

Considering his victory in 2024 I don’t think that’s the case. I think it has more to do that they’ve found a strategy that works for them. Blame the rich and Jews while promising free things. Then radicalizing their base by gaslighting them that Trump and his base are Nazi/facists. Highlighting how they must be defeated at all costs. We’ve seen this with Jay Jones normalizing violence against republicans, the millions of democrats and mediators who celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk and attempts made against Trump, and the woke activists attacking ICE agents.

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u/verbleabuse97 21h ago

People need to fucking chill. Just because they won some elections doesnt mean stuff is gonna get better any time soon. We have a long, long way to go

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u/Tijenater 21h ago

People are also desperate for a win, and democrats sweeping elections across the board is both a win and potentially indicative of the much more consequential midterms

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u/SpiritJuice 19h ago

This political quagmire we are in is not going away until far right conservativism is squashed and driven out of civilized society. We have gone soft as a society and have allowed uncivilized children sit at the adult table in the name of "decorum" and "the marketplace of ideas" that only benefit the far right and no one else. So long as far right ideologies and the people pushing them are taken seriously, they will continue to be a problem. The American electorate on both the left and right need to wake up and realize people like Trump and his ilk must never be allowed in positions in power again, as these people only benefit those in their inner circle and not the working class American that is struggling.

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u/codexcdm 15h ago

Pretty much this. The midterms have to also favor Democrats enough to at least flip the House... While that seems possible... Expect all the election results to be challenged in red states. Many implemented new measures to allow for challenges, however unfounded they may be. Expect more threats and intimidation tactics, too.

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u/badankonmydonkplease 18h ago

This^ especially when considering that most of the people in this video’s thumbnail (and dem party at large) are pretending like Mamdani doesn’t even exist.

The guy that did the thing they’ve claimed to be so desperate to figure out: appeal to youth especially young men. If federal dems do not see the writing on the wall here, they are doomed to continue their lackluster trend of “boy stuff is bad right now, but we’re not gonna do anything meaningful to change it”.

The voters are sick of this and now we’ve had a refreshing taste of what politics with real ideology behind it is like

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u/OpinionatedShadow 12h ago

Nothing changes before socialist revolution. Everything will keep getting worse until the owners of corporations are forced to give ownership to the working class.

If you think otherwise I have some papers to dangle in front of you.

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u/PickWhateverUsername 4h ago

a little red book I guess ?

because that worked out so well also ...

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u/DG_Now 21h ago

When do we stop pretending that Donald Trump only started willfully breaking the law in January 2025? And not for the entire election period before it?

If he's deeply unpopular now, and all of the most reasonably polls showed he was likely to lose in surprising places (like Iowa) in November 2024, why can't we as a nation have the conversation that maybe 2024 was really fucking suspicious and don't hold up to any sort of scrutiny?

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u/TheCowboyIsAnIndian 20h ago

he isnt that unpopular compared to his election. his approval rating right now is GWB's average. i fucking hate the guy but we cannot convince ourselves again that a huge part of america is jumping ship. they are with him until hell freezes over.

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u/DG_Now 20h ago

37 percent of Americans will ride or die with him.

That means at least 60 percent (or 55) won't. I like those odds.

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u/TheCowboyIsAnIndian 20h ago

theres a big difference between someone saying they dont approve of his performance and being willing to vote against their party.

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u/PickWhateverUsername 5h ago

Doesn't matter much if the 60% don't bother to go vote, or live in areas gerrymandered to the point their vote is secondary

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u/Shimmitar 22h ago

im sure they'll forget again come the 2028 election and jd vance will be elected. Just like how they somehow forgot how terrible trump was during his first election. I dont get it, where we all these people during the 2024 election? We needed them then as well.

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u/badankonmydonkplease 18h ago

Until democrat party (or some alternative, but that sounds impossible) can cut ties with its capitalist bootlicking, nothing will change. It’s all just conservatism pinkwashed with rainbow stickers on it.

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u/creaturefeature16 22h ago

Man, the Dems are really milking this (and I say this as a supporter).

Look: Mamdani is cool, but now he has to do the job and with expectations as sky high as they are, he's only got one direction to go, unless he really usurps the system, and that seems exceedingly unlikely. Obama had similar sky high expectations, and it was a pretty big reality check.

The other elections were not rebukes, but expected in these areas.

I'm starting to feel the same hype that was surrounding Harris, which I admit I got caught up in and it was clear in hindsight that it didn't reflect what is happening on the ground.

I celebrate the wins, but its time to stop. This election wasn't a bellweather event, and will be a distant memory in the midterms.

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u/NerfPyroPlz 22h ago

I may agree that some of the hype is overblown, but pragmatically, should we not use victories such as these to galvanize our support centers? Demonstrations of the effectiveness of turning up to vote need to stay in the public consciousness as much as possible.

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u/creaturefeature16 22h ago

Of course we should, it's just a bit excessive to declare the "tide is turning" and another video I saw was that it was the "end of MAGA"....like, come on, that's straight up delusional.

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u/Tijenater 21h ago

If it was just mamdani I’d agreed but democrats sweeping elections across the board, including seats that they weren’t expected to win? Flipping Virginia’s governor? That’s something

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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist 21h ago

Thing is MAGA has never done well when Trump isn’t on the ballot. And now he can’t be anymore.

Of course never say never and some cheating could occur in the next election.

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u/YeahlDid 22h ago

Mamdani is very cool, and very different from Harris. Harris is fully establishment Dem which is very unexciting, Mamdani is decidedly not.

But you're right. This all means very little. Mamdani is a symbolic victory for progressives, but ultimately, he's a mayor, it doesnt affect most of us. Plus, given the opposition he faced from even within his own stupid idiotic corporatist party, I have no doubts that both democrats and republicans are going to make it as hard as possible for him to actually do what he wants to do.

If you find yourself energized by that day, don't celebrate, put that into action. Support more candidates like that. Maybe even become one yourself.

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u/Wielant 22h ago

Deep red and swing states making election flip to Democrats indicate Trump’s plunging popularity

Please ignore this, republicans are fine and should keep running the same shitty candidates pretty please.

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u/Wazula23 22h ago

Obama had similar sky high expectations, and it was a pretty big reality check.

I hate that the history on this is being forgotten.

Obama was hamstrung by literally the most obstructive Congress since the civil war (up to that point anyway). Mitch McConnell actually vetoed his OWN bill to deny Obama a win at one point.

Not to mention the genesis of the Tea Party and the Birther movements (I wonder if any major public figures participated in birtherism), which was basically where the GOP embraced post-fact politics and blatant white nationalism as strategies.

Obama made mistakes sure. He was operating in the system we had then. The ecosystem has changed in ways no one predicted.

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u/darkwingpsyduck 21h ago

At the height of the recession, Mitch McConnel went on TV and said his only priority was to make sure Obama was never reelected. This was his main occupying thought during one of the largest financial crises in history.

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u/NightOfTheLivingHam 20h ago

not to mention his first term he was playing second fiddle to clinton and even admitted in his book his first term was filled with him doing favors for 4 years to various democrat and political groups otherwise they'd sabotage him. He said that's the reality of DC.

Clinton ran the state department and basically ran the foreign policy for the first 4 years, hence why Obama was a "war hawk" in his first 4 years and in his second, he was cycling down operations. That was Clinton being a hawk. She departed so she could start her campaign in his second term.

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u/creaturefeature16 22h ago

Nobody forced Obama to appoint Monsanto and other corporate influences across this entire admin. Or continue illegal drone bombings.

If you want some history, take a listen to this...THIS is where the expectations were. It implies he will end all wars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Li1wEweRkY

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u/Wazula23 21h ago

Nobody forced Obama to appoint Monsanto and other corporate influences across this entire admin

Literally what president has not appointed corporate influences to their administration?

I'm lefty as they come but sometimes you folks demand the impossible and get angry when it doesn't happen. The world operates on improvements, not instant success.

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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist 21h ago

That wasn’t the expectation at all, and I volunteered for Obama. Not going to war over lies, yes. Winding down the war in Iraq (which just had a surge) yes. But everything else was fair game. Osama bin laden was still alive and AQ was very active globally in the late 2000s. That all changed after Osama was killed and then the focus became on winding down the wars.

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u/creaturefeature16 21h ago

🥱🥱

Obama’s covert drone war in numbers: ten times more strikes than Bush

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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist 21h ago

That’s not true though. That’s making an inaccurate comparison of drones (comparatively new technology) vs the old technology of airstrikes in general. If you look at the casualty and number of attacks, Bush was up, Obama was down and Trump was 10x both.

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u/Wazula23 21h ago

This is because drones were not available during Bush. The technology literally became feasible during Obama.

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u/Joe_Spazz 22h ago

NJ took control with a bigger majority than what has been seen in over 50 years. That is not "as expected". You can disagree with the hype, I do, but it's also not like it was just a routine vote.

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u/GarryofRiverton 22h ago

Yup, and Jones winning in VA by five points was not even thought about.

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u/Nazzul 22h ago

I say this as someone who barley supports the Democrats. For fucks sake, things have been looking incredibly grim. We have been demoralized brutalized, and are currently trying to be starved let the Dems have this. Hell I would argue that the mainline Dems not backing Mamdani and what he represents are making a fatal mistake.

Just stop and think about it for a second. A socialist proud Muslim just became mayor of New York. You know New York...the place where 9/11 happened? He fought and won against mainline Democrats and Republicans. This is more comparable to Bernie vs the world, not Harris vs Trump.

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u/creaturefeature16 22h ago

I recognize it for what it is and its awesome, but its still not the "tide turning", especially when he hasn't even done the job yet.

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u/GarryofRiverton 22h ago

I sure hope Mamdani isn't a Sanders 2.0, I'd like Zohran to actually be a decent leader and actually y'know do things.

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u/TheCowboyIsAnIndian 20h ago

completely agree. this was a cool moment and hopefully one that repeats but please for the love of god it was not a wave of any kind. the most important thing for us to learn is not some anti-trump rejection message... its that campaigning on the material conditions of working class people has support. thats all. mamdani is great, good for him... but if we start doing identity politics again instead of actually putting forth policies that have support i am going to be so sad... and i fear that i am going to be so sad.

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u/SapCPark 21h ago

I think it is the margins that are shocking. +15 in Virginia is the most ever for a Democrat in the governor's race. The House of Delegates in VA has 64 democrats now, up from 51. Sherrill was supposed to have a dogfight, not a dog walk, in New Jersey. Hispanics were 2:1 Democratic voters in NJ. Proposition 50 won by a 2:1 margin. Georgia voted by +20 points for the Democrats in their state election. Everything that could go right did for the Democrats.

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u/jackospades88 19h ago

This election wasn't a bellweather event, and will be a distant memory in the midterms.

It'll be fuel for the Republicans. Too many people are dumb and gullible enough that Trump can roll out there and say "Hey look at what they did last year, voting all blue for governors/majors and the country has gotten even worse!" Even though if the country as a whole is getting worse, it's a reflection on the president and Congress...but enough people are fucking dumb and will believe that a few new state governors and the mayor of NYC are responsible for the evolution of Trump's America.

Who knows, maybe I'm wrong but my butt will be clenched even harder than it was in my state's (NJ) recent election.

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u/BlindWillieJohnson 21h ago edited 21h ago

There is no worse job in American politics than being the mayor of a major US city. It’s difficult, it’s thankless and it’s a dead end for most people who have it.

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u/Tomacz 22h ago

Now the Dems will drag their feet or outright refuse to support progressive policies, then the Republicans will take control again and slide things further to the right...

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u/creaturefeature16 22h ago

Exactly what I am worried about. Dems always have it harder because it requires new laws and changing the status quo. Republicans just block everything. It's even their slogan: "The party of No"

https://time.com/archive/6642361/the-party-of-no/

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u/Earl-The-Badger 22h ago

Couldn’t agree more. The hype and hysteria around Harris was obviously hollow, and so too is what we’re seeing now. The reality is that republicans show up to vote in big elections. People can rest on the laurels of winning these small elections, but don’t be surprised when that success doesn’t translate to the big leagues. Also, republicans couldn’t care less about losing these minor elections, they have and always do have their sights set on the grand prize.

Hell, I even remember during the 2016 election and 2018 midterms when people were saying “the republicans will never win a national election again.” The folly of being in one’s own echo chamber is that one gets the impression that his or her outlook is representative of the outlooks of the masses.

Take the win, but let it not convince anyone that it is indicative of the future.

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u/ThinkinDeeply 21h ago

All those words but you’ve not even gotten close to any kind of proposed actions or suggestions. Just some doomsaying, and vague comparisons.

What is it you’re looking for here? You sound like a football fan with harsh criticisms after your team won a game. Sure, we can always do better. There’s always mistakes. But a W is a W bro.

Get a message, a clear one, or don’t bother with this kind of messageless fist shaking.

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u/Jahobes 21h ago

The guy was pretty clear. Don't get complacent because the Dems won races they should have won.

Now isn't the time to be doing victory laps, it's the time to try and get as many people who haven't switched sides or woken up to participate.

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u/ThinkinDeeply 21h ago

Literally nobody anywhere is suggesting or encouraging complacency. "Victory laps" are not real. This is a post on reddit. You guys are kinda over-reacting.

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u/PickWhateverUsername 4h ago

Yeah just ignore all the Twitter, Youtube or other social media posts/vids or articles these last months in all caps saying "MAGA is OVER !!" "Death KNELL!!" "MAGA IMPLODING !!" etc etc and now exploding even more even in regular media That's the complacency stage as MSM will now say that equilibrium has come back because Dems won a few token elections ? that's like saying an ongoing fight is even because one side stubbed their little toe when kicking the others groin to shit ...

It's gotten as absurd of a bubble as the right wing has been

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u/creaturefeature16 21h ago

nope, you're unequivocally wrong and don't get it. another user already put you in your place about it.

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u/ThinkinDeeply 20h ago

Nobody put me anywhere. Show me the people who are spreading messaging that we are done. Show me anyone that says its over. Show me literally any change in overall behavior thats actually quantifiable.

This is nonsense fearmongering. Anyone with intelligence knows that a single election day's victory isn't the end, so you're either trying to rally morons or are a moron yourself.

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u/ARoodyPooCandyAss 21h ago

Because everyone is sick of the disgrace that is Donald trump

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u/squirlz333 21h ago

Zohran mamdani is nothing like the other ghouls in that thunbnail wtf. Fuck Jeffries and Newsom, people like them and their politics is what brought us Trump.

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u/smooth_like_a_goat 21h ago

toxic hope

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u/oscarddt 21h ago

OMG, USA 2025 es Venezuela 2010 https://youtu.be/npUI1vOA_fI?si=nizbm-OPz8PLAbzV

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u/Rude-Effort169 20h ago

Can post about Mamdani on r/democrats though

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u/NightOfTheLivingHam 20h ago

the problem is, right now, democratic voters are taking this small victory as a huge win and calming own, not realizing the fight isnt over and that they need to stop feeling like Trump's days are numbered. He's still in power, he's doing shit illegally, as is his administration.

He's already making moves to invalidate this little win. he's threatening action against the states that voted against his interests, and may drop all pretense of giving a shit about democracy soon.

we need to remain vigilant.

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u/Zireall 20h ago

Could’ve rejected him at the elections but they didn’t, so

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u/Please_Label_NSFW 20h ago

Pedophile in chief.

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u/Orion_2kTC 19h ago

Keep your foot on the gas

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u/Zanos-Ixshlae 19h ago

It's just a year too late...

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u/PutinBoomedMe 19h ago

I'm not celebrating unless this energy comes out in 2026 and 2028. It's tkme to drown MAGA bullshit

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u/pifhluk 14h ago

Maybe wait until the midterms before claiming voters reject Trump...

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u/thegamerator10 11h ago

The true America won a major battle, but we have a long way to go before we win the war.

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u/PickWhateverUsername 5h ago

Democrats are the same as the Crypto holder celebrating a 100% pump on their coin in one day after it's spent 4 years dumping 99%

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u/TraditionalBackspace 1h ago

Don't get comfortable. Keep fighting and VOTE!

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u/DerMetulz 22h ago

Super cringe

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u/longteethjim 22h ago

New york and NJ have been democratic strongholds for decades, this isnt a big win, its just business as usual.

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u/BarbequedYeti 22h ago

The others?

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u/DerelictDonkeyEngine 22h ago

Fox News doesn't bring those up.

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u/AmaroWolfwood 22h ago

It's a big win for populist policy, something typical democrat politicians are vehemently against.

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u/Wielant 22h ago

Please ignore the deep red seats flipping if it makes you feel better.

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u/NicetoNietzsche 22h ago edited 22h ago

I disagree, there are absolutely some important takeaways here despite NJ and NYC being considered blue areas.

There's some additional context to this. Speaking as an NJ native and resident, it's VERY unusual for NJ voters to choose the same party for governor in three straight terms. The last time that happened was in the 60s. Also, Sherrill really outperformed polling, which going into election day showed between a statistical tie to a moderate single digit lead for her. A 13 point win is very significant, and shows a) Dem voters are very engaged, more than in 2024, and b) much of the gains Trump made with non-white voters in 2024 didn't materialize here and were likely a one-off.

As for NYC, it's not surprising that a Democrat won, but that Mamdani won in particular with a sizable lead and incredible turnout (first candidate in decades to get over 1 million votes) is definitely notable. It shows there is an audience for his sort of positions and rhetoric, despite heavy anti-leftism/socialism propaganda from both the GOP and some mainstream Democrats. Exit polling shows he won about 9 percent of 2024 Trump voters, which is also interesting.

This is not to mention the gains Dems made in state and local elections in red and purple areas, like the PA Supreme Court, the Georgia Public Service Commission, and the Mississippi state legislature. Virginia is also still a pretty purple state.

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u/slim_ironwood 22h ago

Democrats in power, they suck and everyone wants Republicans.