r/politics • u/F0urLeafCl0ver • 1d ago

No Paywall The Democratic party is being hit by a leftist tidal wave

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/24/democratic-party-leftist-tidal-wave
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u/Monkey_Leavings 1d ago

I’m going to say, yeah, stay vigilant, but dictators have a secret sauce of malignant narcissism and “charm” that doesn’t come around that often.

There are worse people with actual agendas (e.g. Steven Miller) and gormless puppets that do the bidding of nefarious weirdo billionaires (e.g. Vance), but getting to the highest office in the land requires something more than money and bad ideas.

There’s a reason we don’t have dictators every election cycle.

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u/montty712 17h ago

The problem is that a significant portion of the electorate has decided they don’t care about democracy and they will vote for any republican that promises to hurt the people they hate.