As New York City goes, so goes DC?
The Democrats seem to think that moving ever leftward would be a good thing, at least in deep blue areas. Further evidence of this is that a Democratic Socialist, Janeese Lewis George, is running for mayor in Washington DC. Her campaign is conveying the same basic message as Mamdani, and appealing to the same disgruntled demographic:
“Rent’s rising in homes people can’t afford. Folks are working hard and still feeling the squeeze, while the few in power rake in profits,” Lewis George said in a video announcing her run for mayor, echoing the rhetoric that propelled Mamdani to victory in the Big Apple.
“And now our neighbors, our families, are under attack because we are failing to stand up to defend them,” the council member continued, as images of federal agents arresting people on the street played in the background.
So we have “affordability,” class and generational envy, and anti-ICE sentiment. George is also bringing in some of Mamdani’s digital advisors to target young people on TikTok and the like. She similarly was once against police defunding, but later changed that to being against long sentences but for swift incarceration. I wouldn’t trust a thing she says, except that she’s a Democratic Socialist and wants to become mayor.
Look to see more of these sorts of mayoral candidates in major blue cities. The Overton Window has shifted.
I continue to be amazed that Detroit, which is 80% black, elected a white moderate, now in his third term. And the city has thrived. You might think that other blue hells would see this and think twice about lurching farther left, but you would be mistaken. Maybe it takes a bankruptcy, which Detroit went through, to wake people up.
Denver can’t be far behind. I don’t know who is running to be Governor next yr, but I do know they will be much further to the idijt left of Polis.
They will make Polis look like a moderate, which he isn’t
@ Jimmy: “Maybe it takes a bankruptcy, which Detroit went through, to wake people up.”
I fear the same may end up being the case for the US of A.
Except if the definition of bankruptcy is being clearly unable to meet your current or future obligations, then we are there now.
We will default, but probably hidden by the tax of inflation.
It’s the same phenomenon that on the Right produced Trump. Most people now, Left or Right, are to the point where they want to throw the bums out that have been in the seats too long. On the Left, they’re naturally going to pick leftists and socialists for this. They don’t think the establishment Dems are trying hard enough, much as how many of us on the right don’t think the establishment GOP is trying hard enough.
@ Niketas — and thus both parties move away from the Center (wherever that might be) and any actual Centrists (not extremists, activists, ideologues, or whatever) have to choose the least-bad fit for their own political and financial and social preferences.
We really need a mechanism for a viable third party.