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.
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.
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.