Canada

Zohran Mamdani's shown in New York that strong, left-leaning policies that benefit the working class are popular. If the Canadian NDP can learn from that, maybe they'll make a come back -- they need bolder policies, a bigger comprehensive vision, and to avoid getting mired in divisive identity politics.

My guess is that they won't though. Instead we'll get more of the same demographic-based stuff. The NDPs survival depends on the Liberals stuffing up enough to alienate left-leaning moderates.

It should be noted that the NDP leadership election isn't till Mar.29 2026. The party seems extra directionless till then.

Jagmeet had some merits as a politician, but they really need to pick a leader as a leader.

I don't like how they reduced Zohran success to being a populist. Politicians are inherently populist to some large degree it's their approach that separates them.

Populist positions typically bear fruit when it comes to fundraising, Grenier said, nodding to democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s successful campaign in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary.

Imo it’s messaging. I know NDP will do better things cause of their philosophy, but when I went to their website last election, they didn’t have a good platform.

The most noticeable thing on their website was their donation section, which was so uninspiring.

I want them to talk about aggressive wealth taxes and taking on privatization, whatever they had last election wasn’t that at all.

Compare NDP platform and Socialist Manifesto ideas and it'll become clear where disconnect is. All the parties shifted to the right on political spectrum, with NDP firmly planted at the centre now rather than being to the left. And since we're voting on right-of-centre parties might as well go all out and vote cons, which is what happened. Pelple asked for off-centre solutions NDP did not have them.

Cratered is relative.

They've stayed pretty low since 2015. The end of the Layton legacy. Their fundraising in the 2025 federal election was $3,736k, while the 2021 election had $3,994. Similarly, their Q1 and Q2 total fundraising going back five years is growing slightly.

But the following tracks with my biases:

McGrane said Canada’s National Observer’s analysis indicates the NDPs base is stagnant and it hasn’t been able to grow or expand that base since the Jack Layton and Tom Mulcair years.

“There's a solid base of Canadians that, basically, come hell or high water, is always going to give to the federal NDP,” McGrane said. “It's part of their identity. It's part of how the federal NDP has become entrenched in Canadian politics. And this is, I think, part of the reason why the federal NDP isn't going anywhere.”