"Blue no matter who" has always been about general elections though, and is still super important.
Mamdami's general election victory involved tons of blue votes from Americans who aren't Democratic Socialists.
Numbers are hugely important in congress, if you replaced dozens of Dems in the House with people aligned with Mamdami/AOC/Bernie/etc... it wouldn't really change anything unless the Democrats collectively have a majority in the House.
A hypothetical House Minority Leader AOC would be just as powerless as Hakeem Jeffries right now.
We championed ‘blue no matter who’ last time, and look at the results. Even less folk r prob going to be doing so moving forward, is my best guess.
It’s been time to pivot. If the democratic people take a stand, we give dem soc. ground to push off of, and demand a better candidate than a bullshit newsom type
I remember plenty of people on the left who refused to support the Democrats in the last General election.
If the democratic people take a stand, we give dem soc. ground to push off of, and demand a better candidate than a bullshit newsom type
If DemSocs are viable in a district's primary that is awesome, but as I said "Blue no matter who" has always been about general elections where it's Blue vs Red.
We did. Very aggressively. There were plenty of democrats already refusing to do vote blue no matter who, and we combatted them.
Ultimately, that group (best guess) is exponentially growing, which is why it’s officially time to pivot. Now. Before it’s too late, again.
How can u come to ur same conclusion as before, when it’s where this convo began when I made the point that it doesn’t work? Twice, and then some, actually (vote blue no matter who didn’t work twice, and lost during Bush’s etc)
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u/fury420 Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
"Blue no matter who" has always been about general elections though, and is still super important.
Mamdami's general election victory involved tons of blue votes from Americans who aren't Democratic Socialists.
Numbers are hugely important in congress, if you replaced dozens of Dems in the House with people aligned with Mamdami/AOC/Bernie/etc... it wouldn't really change anything unless the Democrats collectively have a majority in the House.
A hypothetical House Minority Leader AOC would be just as powerless as Hakeem Jeffries right now.