There are plenty of reasons to believe that Democrats are headed toward a blue wave. Democrats are turning out in record numbers in primary contests even in “safe” races. They continue to over-perform in special elections, even flipping the state legislative seat that includes Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
Added to that, the war in Iran is already causing Trump to crater with groups of voters that had boosted him to reelection such as Latino voters. And most major pollsters show that voters would overwhelmingly vote for a generic Democrat for Congress compared to a generic Republican.
But one of the biggest indicators of an impending Democratic win come November is the number of Republicans in the House of Representatives not running for reelection.
Watch them get smug and overconfident, then sit it out again. Calling it now.
Brat summer y’all!!
They won’t listen to the people. They’ll keep their losing talking points. Organized opposition only works if they don’t have to actually govern
Yeah but I bet a lot of reds wearing blue cloaks are going to try to step in for easy seats.
Be vigilant people!
Selfish pricks who made a mess and now leave to let others clean up the mess. Dems will spend their entire time in power fixing shit just to have Americans elect Republicans when the goose is fat again.
“Made a mess” is bullshit phrasing. These fuckers were complicit in the smash and grab looting of America for decades.
AIPAC checks will start flowing to dem centrist coffers again, finally! We did it!
One of the reasons is we’re a year deep into “fight everywhere”.
The DNC has been giving all the money stolen from state parties via the “victory fund” Hillary started a decade ago, back to the state parties.
Allowing them to operate at campaign staffing levels when normally that’s just a couple months every other year.
If you understand what the DNC has been doing since they gave neoliberals the boot, none of this is surprising.
We’re most likely going to see FDR still president right after trump.
I fucking hope everything you are saying is true, but the Dems tend to let me down so much…
but the Dems tend to let me down so much…
I’ve been bitching about “the Dems” since elementary school when they defended Bill Clinton for lying under oath…
A year ago was really the first time we pried the party back from neoliberals in all those 30 years, because Obama just ignored it instead of appointing chairs that agreed with him.
I’ll never be blindly optimistic about anything but as fucked as America is today, this is the most hopeful I’ve ever been for the country on a 10 year timeline.
We just ain’t thru the worst yet.
I feel like Jeffries and Schumer need to go before serious change will actually happen in the party though. The party’s leaders in congress are corporate neoliberal stooges.
The party’s leaders in congress are corporate neoliberal stooges.
While correct…
In case you haven’t noticed, nothing is being passed by Congress and it’s barely even in session these days.
They’re both 100% lame ducks, but that honestly doesn’t matter right now.
We’ll vote for new congressional leadership after midterms and the new reps are sat, and neither stands a chance of retaining their spots if they don’t have the DNC behind them willing to hand seats to Republicans if Dems don’t toe the line.
I hope what you are saying is what is going to happen. We really need an FDR type leader in 2028 if we are going to fix this broken ass country.
The Republican party has gone completely bat-shit insane, and because of our de facto two party system that leaves the Democrats as our only real hope. A scary prospect, but that’s where we are. If the Democrats are going to save us, they have to humble themselves enough to learn the right lessons from their mistakes and make the right adjustments. That’s easier said than done, for sure, but that’s our best hope.
At least, that’s our best hope at the Federal level, but maybe we should stop looking to the Federal government as much and focus on our state governments more. I honestly think a lot more can be done at the state level and state representatives represent far fewer people than federal representatives, so there’s a better chance your state representative will listen to you.
Yep. Focus locally. Definitely agree. And we’ll end up with better federal candidates that way.
The UK also has a FPTP voting system, and currently the 5th biggest party (Reform) is leading the polls, and the 8th biggest party (Greens) is 2nd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election#2026
If people start voting for non-genocidal parties, you could get a decent government - maybe not this election, but possibly the next. If you keep voting for evil, even the lesser evil, everything just keeps getting more and more evil after every election.
Groceries, what a word, a simple word. Can you believe people actually use that word?
I’m not familiar with the word “groceries,” but I do know the phrase food bank.
