Tag: Democratic Party

Mamdani’s Win Suggests a Socialist Future for Democrats and a Rocky One for American Politics

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“”Mamdani won about 62% of the vote among New Yorkers under 30, and more than half among those aged 30 to 44,” Spain’s El Pais noted in an analysis of the election, which was followed around the world. “By contrast, among voters over 65, he drew just 29%.”

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In March, Gallup found that “since 2010, young adults’ overall opinion of capitalism has deteriorated to the point that capitalism and socialism are tied in popularity among this age group.” Among millennials and Gen Z, support for both stood at about 50 percent. But among the youngest in that cohort, socialism is winning out over its freedom-friendly rival.”

https://reason.com/2025/11/07/mamdanis-win-suggests-a-socialist-future-for-democrats-and-a-rocky-one-for-american-politics/

Trump Is Weaponizing the DOJ Just Like He Accused Democrats of Doing

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Trump Is Weaponizing the DOJ Just Like He Accused Democrats of Doing

https://reason.com/2025/03/07/trump-is-weaponizing-the-doj-just-like-he-accused-democrats-of-doing/

How Democrats should — and shouldn’t — moderate on immigration

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“Few things do more to increase humanity’s aggregate prosperity than allowing people to migrate from less wealthy nations to the United States. And the immense benefits that immigrants derive from moving to the US do not come at the expense of native-born Americans. To the contrary, in the long term, immigration makes Americans more prosperous, while rendering the country’s retirement programs more secure.
Precisely because immigration is so beneficial, however, it’s imperative for Democrats to forge a politically tenable approach to the issue. The party should neither embrace full-bore restrictionism nor project complacency about chaos at the border.

Instead, Democrats must make American politics safe for mass immigration. Maintaining the party’s recent pivot toward more aggressive border enforcement and less lenient asylum policies is likely necessary for achieving that goal.”

https://www.vox.com/politics/392104/immigration-surge-trump-biden-democrats-moderate-border

Democrats aren’t alone — incumbent parties have lost elections all around the world

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“a broader analysis of global trends shows that Harris was fighting against some pretty strong headwinds and that any Democratic victory or overperformance would have turned out to be quite the global anomaly.
By the time 2024 is done, more voters will have gone to the polls than in any other year in history. And among the half of the world’s population living in a country with a national election this year, a clear and consistent picture has emerged: Voters are extremely upset with their governments.

Among democracies* that held elections this year, over 80 percent saw the incumbent party lose seats or vote share from the last election. That includes democracies of all kinds and in all corners of the globe.”

https://abcnews.go.com/538/democrats-incumbent-parties-lost-elections-world/story?id=115972068