The Democratic Party, obsessed with death, remains as unpopular as never, but there is another way.
The current American policy is a gloomy race between two immersed ships that head to the bottom of the sea. Donald Trump is never a favorite figure and a single president because he positioned himself as an alternative to unpopular status -quo, again made himself an intensively contemptible president in record time. As a hell report Thursday:
Six months in the second term, President Donald Trump’s work rating decreased to 37%, the lowest in this time and just slightly higher than his worst rating for all the time 34% at the end of the first term. Trump’s rating has fallen on 10 percentage points among adults in the US since it started its second term in JanuaryIncluding a 17-point downturn among the independent, up to 29%, corresponding to its smallest rating with this group in any of its conditions.
You might think that Trump, which gets near the rock bottom in terms of popular support, will overcome the benefit of the Democrats whose all political strategy (at least by party leaders such as Senator Chume Sumer and Hockey Jeffryis) is based on the conviction that everything they should do.
Nevertheless, the more the public hates Trump, the more hostile it becomes the Democratic Party. As The Wall Street Journal report On Friday, a new poll shows that “the image of the Democratic Party has blurred to the lowest point in three decades.” The newspaper added: “that 63% of voters adhere to an unfavorable look at the democratic party – the highest share in Journal Surveys concerning 1990 and 30 percentage points are higher than 33%that have a favorable look. “
It may seem paradoxical that voters are resorting to Trump and also become much more hostile to the Democratic Party. But this contradiction is easily resolved. The very fact that Trump and his policy is unpopular, creates hunger on an alternative way – the one that the leaders of the Democratic Party has avoided the provision instead Offering muted criticism on hot topics such as immigration or budget that enriches the plutocracy. When you turn over and play dead, people who know you are just pretending to think that you are weak and arrogant.
It is in this context that the emergence of Mammani as a mayor nominee in New York offers a new necessary new way. Mammani collided with a strong message of economic populism, which attracted new voters. He has performed particularly good Among the demographic data that slipped from the Democratic Party in the last election: youth (including young black voters), Latin Americans and Asian Americans. Mammani held an optimistic company Heavy on suggestions To combat the availability (eg rent and free bus).
In the e -mail recruitment for Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Mammani wrote“I could not pass the system designed for despair, so I joined the DSA,” of course, “a system designed to make a profit from despair” is capitalism, but the phrase also describes the existing bilateral system. This is a strange fact that over the last decade, both sides have abandoned any significant optimistic vision of the future, preferring instead of pursuing fear (often realistic fear) about what the other side will do. Donald Trump Signature of phrase The “American massacre” (from its first introductory) covers the dystopian mood of time.
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Meanwhile, the Democratic Party offered its own diversity of the American massacre. In 2016, Hillary Clinton liked to speak voters“I am the last thing that stands between you and the apocalypse.” In order to remember the period when US politicians have offered hope rather than competing requirements to fight off the national disaster, it would be necessary to return to Barack Obama’s company. Mamman’s promise is a new hope policy – but one that is based on a much more specific economic egalitarianism than Obama is either promised or put.
Of course, even if Mammani wins the mayor in the fall, his ability to challenge the current American policy spiral will be limited. New York, though big, is only one city, and Mary has limited power. Fortunately, Mammani is not a lone figure, but a part of the new wave of leftist politicians who are removing urban America.
Even The New York TimesThe newspaper, which was often hostile to Mamman, acknowledges that his success is due not only to personal charisma, but also by the expansion of public appetite for economic populism. As reporter Benjamin Oresc wrote in Term Sunday:
Emphasis on Mr. Mamman’s styles goes on the essence Its progressive message And as the voters of the city came to it, as well as voters in Boston in 2021 and in Chicago two years later.
Those elections, along with a recent poll on issues such as rental control, wealth taxes and burden, suggest that many voters, especially those in major democratic cities, have become more susceptible to progressive programs …
Recent National survey The Pew Research Center showed that about six out of 10 adults supported large business taxes and households that earn more than $ 400,000.
This support was also materialized in voter referendums, even in cities where progressive candidates stopped.
Winning elections are one part of politics; Guide, another. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson collided with a backlash For the fact that he did not make his ambitious agenda – a problem that can be blamed not only in hostile media and political institutions, but also in his executive skills. However, his colleague in Boston Michel Wu remains popular. When Mammani wins and successfully manages, it will join the progressive beach head that is formed in Urban American. DSA can continue to grow as an independent organizational power that offers an alternative model of the Democratic Party institution, which is increasingly counting on wealthy donors. The anger that has voters to the Democrats themselves provides fertile soil for an increasing progressive problem for the party elite – one that can also play an important role in primaries next year.
Despair is too easy – indulgence in the current moment. The policy requires a promise of a better future – not only a reproach to depressed status. Mammani – a reminder that even if Trump and the Democratic Party rightfully deserved contempt for voters, still remains relevant and possible to live on Message of Jesse Jackson and “keep the hope of the living.”
