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The American public is crying out for real, substantial change. They want fighters with bold policy agendas. Most of all, they want someone to finally, FINALLY, tackle the rot at the heart of our economy that is making every aspect of American life shittier and more unaffordable than ever before. Now, we’re finally getting a slew of candidates ready to pick up the torch of New Deal progressivism and fight back against the plutocratic corruption of the Republican Party. Will the Democratic Party be ready to embrace them? Time to log on!
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In the wake of the Democratic Party’s brutal losses in the 2024 elections, a new movement of defiant economic populist candidates are seizing the Democratic political world by storm. Most prominent among them, of course, is Zohran Mamdani, who crushed corrupt, abusive, conservative Democrat Andrew Cuomo in a dominating primary victory on a democratic socialist platform laser-focused on bread-and-butter economics. He’s joined by Nathan Sage, a mechanic from Iowa, challenging Joni Ernst and Dan Osborn, an independent union leader challenging billionaire Republican Pete Ricketts, both of whom are running explicitly anti-billionaire populist platforms. Congressional candidates Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, Robert Peters in Illinois, and Rebecca Cooke in Wisconsin are all joining Bernie Sanders on his “Fight The Oligarchy” tour that is turning out packed crowds in red and blue states alike.
The most recent addition to the movement is Graham Platner, an oysterman and former Marine from Maine taking on Sen. Susan Collins. In his campaign video, Platner explicitly labels the billionaire class as the enemy of working Americans and promises to raise the federal minimum wage, stop billionaires from buying elections, crack down on rampant tax dodging by the megawealthy, restore power to labor unions and implement a universal healthcare program.
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The Democratic establishment is seemingly none too pleased with the rise in populist boat-rocking. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries still haven’t endorsed him. The political articlesphere is suddenly filled with pieces like a recent missive for the Hill [ [link removed] ] by Mike Bloomberg advisor Douglas E. Schoen entitled “Zohran Mamdani is a political risk Democrats shouldn’t take,” hawking spooky nightmare scenarios about damage that candidates like Mamdani could do to the national party.
Obviously, this is just the same old bad-faith oooooh spooky socialism talk from a mouthpiece for the 1%, but it does provide a useful illustration of how the centrist donor wing of the party is fundamentally out of touch with reality.
The most popular well-known politician in America is democratic socialist Bernie Sanders, according to the latest Gallup poll [ [link removed] ]. The Democratic Party, on the other hand, has a net approval rating of -30 . Congressional Democrats have a 70% disapproval rate. We just lost control of every branch of the federal government. What more could we possibly lose?
What the Democratic establishment has to lose is the fat donor checks from billionaires who then turn around and write those same checks to Republicans. But Zohran Mamdani just won his election spending just $6 million to the $45 million poured into the race on behalf of Andrew Cuomo by the oligarch class. Money doesn’t win elections, votes do. If you offer something voters want to vote for, they’ll vote for you! Imagine that.
Mamdani, Platner, Osborn, Sage, El-Sayed, and all the rest of the new wave of Democratic populists are ready to take back our country from the Republican Party and their billionaire puppetmasters. It’s time for the Democratic Party to get with the program if they’re actually serious about winning elections again, because it’s clear that whatever we’re doing now is NOT working.
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