Insurgent Wave in New York Pushes Old Guard Democrats Aside

From today’s NYTimes, who can safely speak the truth now that Bernie Sanders has been defeated:

“But the machine ballot count made it clear that New York politics is in the midst of a generational political shift, one that has been precipitated not only by the progressive energy and shifting attitudes toward racial equity that have swept the nation, but by the diversity in race, sexuality and gender of the candidates that voters are catapulting to office.”

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“Much of the leftward lurch is rooted in President Trump’s election in 2016 and his re-election bid this year, and fueled by the inroads of Senator Bernie Sanders’s two presidential candidacies, which thrust his democratic socialist ideology and calls for revolution into the political mainstream across the country.”

In 2017, we had Dan Donovan (R-11), John Faso (R-19), Joe Crowley (D-14) and Eliot Engel (D-15) in Congress in NYC or within a 45 minute drive.

They’ve been replaced with Max Rose, Antonio Delgado, AOC, and Jamaal Bowman. Those four are joined by Mondaire Jones (17) and Ritchie Torres (16), the first black openly gay Congress people in history.

The majority of these representatives support #MedicareForAll (Delgado, as an example, in a swing district, does not say it directly but supports “eliminating the profit motive”).

Those of us on the ground doing the work knew that this was happening. Progressives were going to win, and keep winning.

If we can win in Staten Island, Westchester, and the Hudson Valley, we can win anywhere. Americans are ready for a political revolution that puts people over profits. Let’s go.

#NotMeUs