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"A stunning rebuke of anti-trans politics" - Democrats win elections nationwide despite anti-trans ads
(www.erininthemorning.com)
More of a rebuke of facist policies.
this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2025
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Maybe they'll stop with that shit now. It had the stink of desperation this time around. Time to think up some other (probably equally disgusting) strategy. It for damn sure won't be good policy positions.
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.
Now if only Newsom and Kamala could get with the program.
The more things go in this direction, the more likely they are to join in. The biggest reason they're (at best) wishy-washy in this area is that they're trying to pull centrist votes.
If the apparent center shifts, they'll shift with it.
Imagine if they actually had a spine and stood for something right. Hopefully instead of 'coming too', they get replaced by decent humans.