"After the joy, the trepidation. Or at least the preparation. Democrats, along with many others around the world, cheered this week's wins in a clutch of off-year elections that saw Donald Trump's Republicans defeated from sea to shining sea. But now they need to brace themselves for the reaction. Because Donald Trump does not like losing. And he will do everything he can to ensure it does not happen again by means fair and, more often, foul. Indeed, that effort is already under way."
"All this has displeased Trump, but it is the election of Mamdani in Trump's home city that brought the swiftest response. The forces of Maga have wasted no time in making the man Trump calls a 100% communist lunatic the face of the Democratic party. The New York Post went early, with a front page showing the new mayor clutching a hammer and sickle, next to the headline The Red Apple, with the R reversed to looks suspiciously Soviet."
Democrats celebrated a series of off-year election victories across the United States, including Zohran Mamdani's history-making win in New York, governorships in New Jersey and Virginia, and a consequential California ballot measure. The wins reversed some losses from the previous year when Republicans captured the House, the Senate and the White House. Donald Trump and MAGA-aligned forces reacted quickly, personalizing Mamdani as a communist and deploying media imagery to portray socialism as a global threat. Republican strategists aim to nationalize next year's midterms and use aggressive tactics, both fair and foul, to prevent similar Democratic successes going forward.
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