New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani flexed his political muscle Tuesday, getting a clean sweep as his three endorsed congressional candidates advanced to November’s general election, ousting two incumbent Democratic congressmen.

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    can you imagine what a truly progressive president could do. actually, no need to imagine, FDR did this on a federal level and created a new deal majority in the house that lasted until Reagan. this is also why the democrats will maintain an iron hold on the primary process, they literally risk their political future with a progressive president.

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      It’s going to be a lot harder with the modern media landscape. We need to get the progressive president in first and then break up the big media and tech companies.

      The kind of sustained majority created by FDR will never be possible as long as a handful of fascist billionaires control most of the media.

      It’d probably be more helpful to look to Teddy Roosevelt, who overcame the similarly powerful robber barons to bring us labor and women’s rights.

      The man was an evil fucking dickhead on foreign policy but pretty bomb on domestic policy, and he was a genius campaigner who understood how to build an image and use appeals to emotion to push progressive ideas.

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      can you imagine what a truly progressive president could do.

      Hard to say. Evil policies are extremely easy to push through because they usually align with the interests of the billionaires who run everything.