California Voters Prefer 'Progressives' and 'Democratic Socialists' to 'Mainstream Democrats': Poll

Sure they do. The Corpo-Establishment Democrats that took over the party years ago, are essentially no better than the old Republicans. They may be slightly better than MAGAs, but they haven't represented what Democratic Citizens have warned for a LONG time.

So when a new brand of Democrat comes along, and says they support all the things that Dems really want, why not support them? Oh, because you don't like the name? Who fucking cares? If they're giving us what we want, what we deserve, what we've earned, what's been STOLEN from us, then why are we so willing to give it up because the group uses a word that makes MAGAs and stupid old people nervous?

Labels don't hurt us, but having exorbitant housing/ food/ health/ transportation costs hurts Citizens every day.

So does the DNC...

Here's the chair talking about how he wants more candidates like Mamdani 14 months ago, before Mamdani even won the general:

Ken Martin:

Well, first, it was a brilliant campaign. And there's a lot of lessons.

One is, he campaigned for something. And this is a critical piece. We can't just be in a perpetual state of resisting Donald Trump. Of course, we have to resist Donald Trump. There's no doubt about it for all the reasons we just talked about. But we also have to give people a sense of what we're for, what the Democratic Party is fighting for, and what we would do if they put us back in power.

And that's really critical. And I think that's one of the lessons from Mamdani's campaign, is that he focused on affordability. He focused on a message that was resonant with voters, and he campaigned for something, not against other people or against other things. He campaigned on a vision of how he was going to make New York City a better place to live.

I think that's one of the lessons. The other lessons, of course, is the tactics he used to get his message out, both a very aggressive in-person campaigning, meeting voters where they're at, and then also in those digital spaces, using very creative messaging to cut through the noise and to get to voters in an inexpensive but authentic way.

There's a lot to learn from that campaign, and I'm excited to learn more.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dnc-chair-on-the-path-to-winning-back-voters-and-lessons-democrats-can-learn-from-mamdani