Democratic Socialists can win in blue areas but won’t win in purple or red areas.

Talarico is from Texas. He better know how Texans feel about raising taxes. Make a mistake and he will lose and with it the chance for Democrats to gain control of the Senate and stop Trump’s agenda.

From https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/28/new-york-mamdani-pied-a-terre-tax-passes.html?msockid=186639121d25683932d52a0d1ca16978

State lawmakers on Wednesday passed the tax on nonprimary residences in order to help close the city’s budget gap. The so-called pied-a-terre tax will be imposed on second homes valued at $1 million or more. It’s expected to raise $500 million in revenue.

Texans won’t like raising taxes. Texas touts its low taxes to attract people and businesses from states such as California.

But this is achieved by raising taxes. Texans won’t like this. Texas is trying to attract people and businesses from states such as California by touting its low taxes.

I don’t know whether that is much of an issue in Texas, but Talarico can adopt my proposal.

This is my proposal to end the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Egypt will be given the West Bank enlarged by land equivalent to the Gaza Strip. In return, Israel will be given the Gaza Strip and land at least 3 times larger than the West Bank in the Sinai Peninsula. Some of the land will be adjacent to water so Israel can build desalination plants. The Sinai is inhospitable, and Egypt doesn’t have the technology to develop it, but Israel does. With its new land, Egypt can give it to the Palestinians, make it a state within Egypt, or whatever it wants.

Do you think Texans would want to pay higher taxes? That’s necessary to pay for Mamdani’s programs.

If leftist policies appeal to Texans, why is Texas still red?

Such as those of Mamdani. You really think such policies would appeal to Texans?

Talarico is correct in saying that in order to win, he has to move beyond the traditional Democratic base. To do this, he has to adopt more centrist views in order to attract independents and Republicans.