Zohran Mamdani’s campaign represented a struggle for basic dignity and an affirmation of democratic potential. It was ceaselessly denounced by political and media elites from across the spectrum as something sinister, violent, and dangerous.
I disagree completely, I think Zohran’s victory is a key example of left unity despite all efforts to drive a wedge or schism.
Yeah, the US never really stopped McCarthyism. Anyone that is even remotely left politically is to be stymied and squashed.
Sure, depending on who you mean by “left.” Folks like Schumer and Jefferies, however, would certainly need to be excluded for the “unity” part to make sense.
Jeffries endorsed Mamdani before election day.
Two weeks before the election, four months after the primary. Too little too late.
“No you don’t get it, he did it in the last possible minute, that means he always supported him.”
I swear to god, democrats will try literally everything else before endorsing a good candidate with popular policies.
What, touring with the war criminal Dick Chaney isn’t gonna win voters?
Look, if you stand before a hundred people in a room and two of them disavow you and then people started publishing stories that the entire room was against you: do you think that would be a fair portrayal? Or do you think it’s just people trying to divide the room into camps?
So we’re doing the bad apples thing now? We know who the leaders of the Democratic Party in New York and nationwide are and many of them either waited for months or just straight up didn’t endorse the literal primary winner, who by all means everyone should endorse from day one. If it was a leftist refusing to endorse, I don’t know, Newsom they’d all be up in arms about leftist division and purity testing. I don’t give a shit what random Democratic official #3011 said about Mamdani; the people running the show showed exactly zero unity with the Mamdani and the left.
They would not all be up in arms, just a couple of individuals. Whoever wins the primary is the DNC and whoever loses is not, until the DNC in practice no longer exists.
Technically yes, and what a ringing endorsement it was
“As with any Mayor, there will be areas of agreement and areas of principled disagreement. Yet, the stakes are existential,”
When asked later if Mamdani is the future of the party
“No, I think the future of the Democratic Party is going to fall, as far as we’re concerned, relative to the House Democratic Caucus and members who are doing great work all across the country,”
How dare the people get a say in OUR government
- those in power
He didn’t do anything, those broken people provoked themselves.
I really hope he proves the haters wrong and we can start ousting the losers we have in the Democratic Party. The people in New York need to fight like hell to let him enact his agenda. If it goes well the country might start to move in the right direction.
As an example of the meltdown, this editorial in WashPo is…LOL.
