Seems Johnson knows this. Both him and Trump will keep this shutdown going to stop the forced release of these files it seems. Don’t know what kind of plan they’re cooking up though.
Seems Johnson knows this. Both him and Trump will keep this shutdown going to stop the forced release of these files it seems. Don’t know what kind of plan they’re cooking up though.
If you look at the Labour Party in the UK, they walked in with comically oversized majorities last year. Then they proceeded to govern exactly like their Conservative predecessors - with no few MPs gleaned from the ranks of fleeing conservatives - such that Reform UK is now ready to pick up the Prime Ministership in the next election cycle.
The problem with the modern American conservative movement is that its not confined to the GOP. It is a consequence of the donor base. And the donors continue to be enthusiastically bipartisan.
I respect the grizzled cynicism of this take while at the same time hoping that this will be different.
We’ve definitely got cause for hope after this last election cycle.
But given the stubbornness of the Cuomo-crats, we continue to have some cause for alarm.
Mamdani has entered the chat…
No billionaires funding him…yet.
He’s an edge case. And - don’t get me wrong - if this is a self-reproducing model for future campaigns, awesome!
But Mamdani himself is exceptionally charismatic with good politics to back him up. I wouldn’t even say guys like him don’t exist, they just tend to prefer climbing the escalator of retail politics to the greased pole of democratic socialism.
One of the funny things about New York politics is that Mamdani’s predecessors called for similar things [Billionaire Bloomberg supported congestion pricing and tried to bring fresh produce to food deserts]
Hell, NYC’s most popular Mayor ran on a “Fusion Ticket” with the Communists. Socialists, and the Republicans.
He’s had offers . . .