• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      I’ve seen a lot of people insist that we were going to stop doing democracy going forward.

      I was skeptical, precisely because the Mamdani race appeared to illustrate how an unpopular incumbent friend-of-Trump could absolutely still lose to a socialist outsider campaign by a local town populist hero. But now I’m seeing the Dem national establishment freak out in such a way that… Idk, maybe they really will try to toss the results of the primary in the trash and tell Zohran he’s not welcome in the general.

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      Yes, the current cohort. With Mondoni, AOC and Bernie, The hope is more people will vote for progressive candidates and bring back the Democrats from the dead.

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      Nah. We’re taking it over. Thirty years of retirees picking our candidates in the primaries gave us the centrist party. People are finally waking up and turning out.