Sixty-eight percent of Americans say the Democratic Party is “out of touch” with people’s concerns, a higher share than those who say the same of Donald Trump or the GOP.
Great post! Your insight that races need to be "ambitious, rooted in local reality, and willing to evolve" is key. There's a lot of analysis out there centered on the need to focus campaigns on material local realities (i.e., cost of living), but I think a commitment to ambitious policy and illustrating a capacity to evolve are just as important. What struck me most about Mamdani's campaign was his willingness, when challenged on an idea, to essentially say "well, if we try and it doesn't work, we'll try something else." Like you point out, there's action embedded even in this admission of potential failure.
Great post! Your insight that races need to be "ambitious, rooted in local reality, and willing to evolve" is key. There's a lot of analysis out there centered on the need to focus campaigns on material local realities (i.e., cost of living), but I think a commitment to ambitious policy and illustrating a capacity to evolve are just as important. What struck me most about Mamdani's campaign was his willingness, when challenged on an idea, to essentially say "well, if we try and it doesn't work, we'll try something else." Like you point out, there's action embedded even in this admission of potential failure.
Mamdani winning makes it more likely that Dems lose in other places.
He's a smooth talking antisemite that's it