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How progressives are taking over swing states – and driving fear into Democratic elites (www.theguardian.com)

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Left-leaning challengers in the Rust belt are throwing chaos into a divided party struggling to rebuild after Trump’s win

From Detroit to Pennsylvania to Buffalo, New York, and here in Ohio, insurgent, progressive Democrats are defeating their long-established colleagues in dozens of school board, city council and mayoral races, throwing the already-divided national party into chaos, even as polls indicate it stands to potentially benefit at next year’s midterm elections due to the Trump administration’s divisive policies.

In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, one of seven swing states whose voters in recent years have decided the country’s presidential election, 37-year-old Jaime Arroyo was elected mayor on 4 November, becoming the first Latino mayor in the city’s 295-year history. In La Crosse, Wisconsin, another swing state, Shaundel Washington-Spivey, the city’s first Black and out gay mayor, beat a fellow Democratic party candidate with extensive local government experience last April.

Candidates such as Turner-Sloss, Arroyo and Washington-Spivey are campaigning on combating rising housing costs and providing better public transit infrastructure at a time when affordability issues and federal government policies are driving many working families into crisis.

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[-] Gaja0@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 hours ago

I'm just saying, conservatives don't complain about the nazis as much as democrats complain about progressives

[-] KelvarCherry 2 points 1 hour ago

democrats don't complain about the nazis as much as democrats complain about progressives >:P

[-] prole 2 points 2 hours ago

Because they literally agree with the Nazis, even if they don't want to say it out loud

[-] BanMe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I only ever see it the other way, progressives complaining about democrats not being pure enough, not being hardcore enough, while they don't have to go actually campaign and win votes in those areas to understand why the democrats have to moderate themselves to appeal to actual voters.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 28 minutes ago

Establishment Dems have spent too much time listening to the Conservative Propaganda Machine, and have come to believe that we are a right wing nation, and have become essentially the Republican-Lite Party.

Progressives are finally reminding the cowardly Establishment Dems that they owe their loyalty to the left, and it's time to stop appeasing MAGAs.

If the Dems ever get our government back, it won't be enough to be just another placeholder administration whose primary responsibility is to just mark time while the American people forget MAGAs treason and corruption, and let them cheat their way into power again.

MAGA is not a political party, it is an organized criminal entity disguised as a political party. The next time, the Dems have to show true courage, and ruthlessly purge MAGA from our government and our society, and prohibit any MAGA from ever holding office under 14A/S3.

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