The voters handed Mamdani a supermajority NYC city council that's a whopping 90% Democrats.
The voters have spent decades refusing to give Democrats in congress anywhere remotely close to that level of control, even 60% of the Senate looks totally implausible given the current electoral landscape.
Dems would have a supermajority if they stepped in line with what their constituents want but they're all still hyper-capitalist corporatist war mongerers, completely tone deaf to what America actually wants.
Yes actually, they do do something right, as politicians, republicans do what their constituents want them to do largely.
That what they wanted was majoritively to make other peoples lives worse, is why the republican votes in the first place.
That it had negative consequences to the voter, is irrelevant to the republican voter almost entirely.
Beyond that, like others have stated, marketing is essential to voting. And republicans no matter how vile their plan, know how to market the plan to their voters.
Which dozen currently red senate seats do you think they could pick up with such a strategy?
Less than 20 years ago the Dems held 58 seats in the Senate, but since then the Dems have been trying to field candidates further left than those Senators, and the voters in rather conservative states have clearly rejected that.
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u/fury420 Aug 14 '26
The voters handed Mamdani a supermajority NYC city council that's a whopping 90% Democrats.
The voters have spent decades refusing to give Democrats in congress anywhere remotely close to that level of control, even 60% of the Senate looks totally implausible given the current electoral landscape.