Not only wrong, but willfully ignorant. Your point of view is ignoring so many basic facts, two of which are exceedingly important:

1. You have no power whatsoever at the national level absent a billion-dollar fortune or membership in the Epstein Class.
2. Our only power is local, and locally, progressives are winning, and it's not just Mamdani.

Hell, look at my state: deep red Missouri. You probably haven't given it a second thought, but in 2024 we approved state amendments to mandate required paid sick leave, a $15 minimum wage, and legalizing abortion. Kansas City has passed two extensions of its streetcar line in recent years, which is amazing because KC is a car-centric town. (And the streetcar is free.) We even imprisoned a killer cop, one of the few places in the entire country to do so.

In deep-red Missouri.

The alternative explanation is that, on top of having to overcome billionaires, we have to deal with brain-dead partisan Democratic voters who think someone is 'electable' because they don't consume any info that isn't fed to them from their moronic, corporate-owned social media feeds or MSNBC, or they ignore how shitty a candidate is because that politician possesses a vagina.