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"A stunning rebuke of anti-trans politics" - Democrats win elections nationwide despite anti-trans ads
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Mamdani's victory is a bfd. Local elections matter. Trump and his hideous flying monkeys want us afraid. Some Democrats have been hiding their faces, others are trying to regroup. These elections show that those who refuse to abandon trans Americans, who refuse to cower before the hateful Republican agenda, can win handily. It's a message. It means, we're not giving up. We defy you, Stephen Miller. Andrew Cuomo, we reject you.
It was still a sub 25% voter turnout. I want to believe this means tides are turning but I don't know.
Highest turnout since '69. For a guy who I was only peripherally aware of and assumed would lose based on how everyone was smearing him. This is about as engaged as Americans ever get at the polls and as far as I know, 1/4 of the largest city in the US turning out would no doubt herald some kind of Age-of-Aquarius type change in the gestalt consciousness. Feel free to have a little optimism about it, you have to let yourself feel hopeful occasionally. Don't let your guard down, don't assume Mamdani means this IS the Age of Aquarius, Americam democracy is still on its deathbed, and retaliation will come from the cyka blyat. But sometimes you do win one. And again, without compulsive voting à la Australia, 25% turnout — remember how unengaged, poorly educated and trapped at work Americans can be — 25% would be bonkers.