Dave Weigel

It's interesting because of how conservative media cover it.

I think they call Omar Fateh the Minneapolis Mamdani, which that's alliteration.

That's pretty good.

But Jacob Fry is probably winning a third term in Minneapolis.

He won his second term after refusing to endorse defunding the police and abolishing the police department.

He is favored to win this term over a DSA member who was much more left wing than him.

And Tim Walz actually campaigned for Fry over this guy.

It divided the party locally.

But if you are a Democrat, let's say you're a Democrat who wants to rebut your opponent, that everyone in the entire party is represented by the worst thing Mamdani said.

Progressives are I think they've regained some ground in cities.

But it's very important how Mamdani renounced defund the police many, many times.

And I talked to him in debates.

He ran to the right of where he was when he got into politics.

A more pro-socialist candidate in another liberal city is not going to win.

So it's not like the Democrats have figured out the Goldilocks situation where they know exactly how they should run around the country.

But yes, the progressives have some limits.

They need to be a little bit more –

careful about their criminal justice policies to win.

And then where Democrats are running in swing districts, they really figured out what to do.

I mean, they just had a fantastic night.