Mamdani’s STUNNING Victory - A TRIUMPH For Global Left

Meanwhile in Trump land, scenes from the West Bank.

SHOCKING ICE Assault Goes Viral

U.S. citizen Dayanne Figueroa was ripped out of her car by ICE and violently detained in Chicago.

And the comments defending ICE don't give me much hope for the US.

Mandani won NY, yet I wouldn't call it a crushing victory with 51%. The divide in the USA is only growing bigger. 

ICE is also going after Canadians
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney

Trump wants Canada as a 51st state but doesn't want Canadians? You can keep your gestapo on your side of the border. We'll keep our money on our side of the border. Boycott USA.

A lot of late polls had Sherrill in a dead heat with Ciattarelli. Media were even questioning if New Jersey might become. But she outperformed the polls in the election.

It was a similar story in Virginia - Earle-Sears did about as well as the polls were predicting, but Spanberger did around 4-5 points better. Looks like nearly all the undecideds broke for Spanberger; possibly they were waiting to see what happened with the government shutdown before deciding who to vote for?

Trump says US lost sovereignty after Mamdani’s win in New York mayoral election

US President Donald Trump has said that his country lost little bit of sovereignty after Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral election in New York adding that he would ‘take care of that.’ This, Rifat Jawaid, argues is a new low even by Trump’s own standards. Rifat looks at the extraordinary meltdown amongst America’s Right on Mamdani’s historic election win.

Lol, things might get so bad that we breach the competitive party politics that has been the sixth and seventh party systems. 

Like if the Senate removes the filibuster and Democrats win it and the house back next year, Trump or Vance are going to have to go on a veto spree that won't look great, especially if we're in a depression by then. 

So once again, I'm observing something that I see time and again.

Democrats are constantly tone-policed by conservatives. Every time an election goes badly for Democrats, they are lectured on their failure to connect with Middle America and rural voters. This even happens on this site when certain users, some of whom do not even live in the United States and are absolutely, proudly ignorant of American politics and culture, decide to run their mouths on the subject. I always love to see European and Oceanian ignorance of the USA on display here (and appreciate those Europeans, like Ryuu, who do attempt to understand the situation and ask questions when they don't.)

Republicans had a bad night on Tuesday. Mamdani's election as mayor of NYC was especially shocking to them. They didn't even back Curt Silwa, the official Republican candidate. They backed a former "mainstream Democratic" candidate who lost the Democratic primaries (and lost his last job, Governor of NY State, for being a sex pest. Seems like Cuomo has a big problem with not accepting "no" for an answer, whether it's in politics or in the bedroom. Are there any calls for Republicans to turn down the temperature? Are they being asked to look within themselves to see why they lost? Why they can't connect with urban voters? Are they asking what they could do to appeal to the concerns of the people of New York City, instead of merely demanding that NYC bow to the greatness of Trump and MAGA?

Nope. They're doubling down, trebling down, on the anger, the insults, and the racism. They've been openly calling the people of New York City names. They've been posting blatantly racist memes connecting Mamdani, who was only 10 years old on 9/11/2001, to the 9/11 attacks. And just a reminder that all of those hijackers, with the exception of an Egyptian guy, came from those rich Gulf oil states whose asses Trump is kissing. 15 of them were Saudis, and Osama bin Laden was drectly connected to the Saudi Royal Family. They are vowing to see how far they can get away with breaking the law and violating the U.S. Constitution to sabotage Mamdani. If they thought they could get away with de-naturalizing him, imprisoning him, and shipping him off to El Salvador without potentially causing a civil uprising, they would.

I am fucking sick and tired of the fucking double standard.

Meanwhile, an awful lot of Latino men are having some serious buyers' remorse about their votes last year.

Republicans Lost Latino Voters Practically Overnight Thanks to Trump - The New Republic

Is this what conservatives mean when they say that Democrats need to dial down the rhetoric? This was posted by Andy Ogles (R-TN) the day before the election.

This is the county I live in that contains Pittsburgh.  2023 wasn't even a bad year for Democrats. Pretty crazy.

Mamdani did THAT? 😱

When he was ten years old, apparently.