It was a good night for Democrats and social democrats, with a big blue sweep all across the country. Mamdani won, although I think it helped that a corrupt clown like Cuomo (who was endorsed by Trump) was his opponent. Virginia turned a vibrant shade of purple. The California referendum on legalized gerrymandering passed, which I have mixed feelings about. Trump is literally hated by a significant fraction of the population, and I think he’s dragging the Republican party down. The Democratic party is also down — let’s hope that the leadership learns to recognize that their tepid timidity is not exactly electrifying the electorate.
Here’s one good summary of yesterday’s outcome.
He’s not right about Omar Fateh, who is running against Jacob Frey for mayor of Minneapolis. Minneapolis has ranked choice voting, and while Frey is ahead in the first pass, he didn’t reach the threshold — it’s going to take a few more days to tally up all the votes. Also, Kaohly Her, a Hmong woman and DFL candidate, won the St Paul mayoral race.
This is a good start to retaking the country from fascists. It is not the bigger 2026 midterm elections, though, and most definitely not even close to a 2028 presidential election, but we’re going in the right direction. I’m sure Trump is already annoyed and might be scheming to commit even more radical crimes in the near future.
Hmmm.. grteat tohave this good news fromUSoA elections.
Stil worried over how fair the mid-terms likely won’t be.
Good news. 2026 will be a wipe out for the House of Representatives. The Senate may flip too. Buried deep in the 2025 project is a ferocious program of privatization, selling off many government functions to oligarch billionaires. Destroying Social Security and Medicare et al is just a beginning. The GOP may have doomed itself with such insanity long term.
https://inthepublicinterest.org/privatization-report-3-18-2025/
That’s assuming we still have free and fair elections in a year. Trunk and Hegseth have made public plans to deploy national guard troops to all 50 states to help “supervise” the 2026 election. We’ll see what that does for Democratic turn out…
@3 IX-103, the ■■■■ing idiot
According to German satirical news website Postillon, you have to be afraid of even more drastic countermeasures.
@ ^ lasius : Yikes! Actually, yeah, wouldn’t put it past him..
@3 IX-103, the ■■■■ing idiot : Yup. Fear that’s a very big IF these years. Under this regime.
@2 cheerfulcharlie : I wish I had your confidence and could believe that – starting with the idea that there’ll be mid-terms next year at all. Hope you are right but afraid I very much doubt it – if the electiosn are free and fair Trump will lose badly – and that’s why I don’t think there will