Cops document events and threaten violence. Well, instigate violence as well, but only the Rotten Apples™.

Who cares if the Dems go progressive? It's the voters who are important. The Republicans kept resisting the rising far right movements like the Tea Party, and then MAGA, but the voters just bulldozed right over them.

The corporatist establishment Democrats all made it extremely clear that they would prefer a corrupt asshole like Adams for Mayor, but the people told them to go fuck themselves, and now the DNC has no choice but to get on board.

The voters don't have to do what the DNC demands, but the DNC has to live with whoever the voters force upon them.

True leftists, like any medium-small minority, can make or break any coalition of medium-small minorities. And likewise, they can't really direct policy all on their own, because the rest of the minorities in the coalition aren't on board yet. One minority can't make it, but they can break it.

I also hope this brings progressivism to the Democratic party. That would be a good way to bring more of the coalition on board.

It won't be easy. We must keep getting progressives in office if you want more than lip service.

the Democratic Party is a lot less monolithic than people make it out to be, it’s just that a lot of influential people in the back end have been fighting to keep progressives out, arguing that they needed to stay close to republicans to win “moderate” voters.

More visible progressive wins will erode that narrative and allow various parts of the coalition to abandon the neoliberal orthodoxy imposed on them by corporate consultants. We can’t get anywhere untill that dead weight is dropped. Maybe the Democratic Party won’t be the one to adapt to the new conditions, maybe something new will take their place, but nothing is going to happen till that narrative is dead.

There are Leftists in this thread who are saying Mamdani's no good because he hasn't done everything he promised.

don't forget decades of breathing aerosolized lead!

Thanks to Beijing's TikTok psyop theres a brand new generation of fascists from the USA to Germany.

baby steps, baby steps.

Mild steps away from the neoliberal consensus are necessary perquisites to break the back of the propaganda machine.

Democratic Socialist =/= Socialist.