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tea party approach works perfectly well! get a critical mass to take over your county Party
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff.bsky.social) 2025-06-25T02:47:27.455Z
For everyone who said this wasn't possible in New York City, that the local Democratic Party Machine was too powerful, and so on: I hope tonight has shown how incredibly weak that machine is.
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog.lol) 2025-06-25T05:14:34.200Z
For everyone who said this wasn't possible in New York City, that the local Democratic Party Machine was too powerful, and so on: I hope tonight has shown how incredibly weak that machine is.
the tea party approach works perfectly well! get a critical mass of people who agree with us to take over your county democratic party, then the state party, and so on! there are a lot of radicalized wine moms and retirees who are just ITCHING to get moving on this
I mean it can’t have been *that* powerful. The chairman of the Queens Democratic Party couldn’t even turn out 13K people to vote for him against a bartender in 2018.
— Mike Ensminger Fan Account (@laplanck.bsky.social) 2025-06-25T05:52:47.199Z
Honestly no. The story is about how incredibly good the outsider candidates were.
— Anthony Nagatani (@anthonynagatani.bsky.social) 2025-06-25T05:38:07.757Z