Mamdani appoints top DNC and Obama adviser in bid to secure Democratic Party establishment support
Mamdani appoints top DNC and Obama adviser in bid to secure Democratic Party establishment support
Lerner is in bed with a bunch of law firms that I would rather he not be. He does have connections for the kind of campaign Mamdani needs to run to get the DNC suckups to get on board though, so I'm skeptical, but hopefully this is a good.
Khan is a smart fucking move.
Mamdani needs to run to get the DNC suckups to get on board though
why does Mamdani need any of that support at all? He has the nom, he is on the ballot, NYC will be voting for him. Obama and the DNC aren't needed at all.
Hey, if Obama's team could get a black man elected twice then this should work perfectly.
The only way be will get that support is if he pivots to the right. Obama talked like a progressive when he ran, but ruled conservative as a president. So no I don't see this as a good sign.
You joke but he has been underperforming with blacks
Okay everyone, get your pitchforks ready because if he does veer off to the center and doesn't get significant backlash from the left y'all are doomed, no two ways about it.
I think this is a miscalculation. 62% of Democrats want the leadership gone, the establishment Dems are splitting their vote between Adams and Cuomo, and nothing short of full-throated support of Israel will satisfy them anyway. There's no point in appeasing an enemy that is weak, fractured, and belligerent. They pose no threat to him and he has little to gain from winning them over.
Oof
gross
If the left doesn’t support compromise, I am dunzo’s. Life & politics both require compromise. It often makes navigating difficult, and in many cases, decisions are made that may not satisfy everyone’s interest. So be it. The idea that there is a mandatory acceptance of one because one simply exists and should be included is farcical and an idea of pure whimsy. I’m definitely not saying that we as a culture should not try to be as welcoming, encouraging and inclusive on a whole, as best we can. Just saying this. Not everyone makes the cut and because some may not be acknowledged for what they so desperately desire, that doesn’t make that non acknowledgement an inverse weapon of negativity. I am really tip toe-ing around. I should probably stop commenting right about now. Therefore, I will cease any further comments this evening/early morning.
The compromise meanwhile is: we going to take your right of expression, taxes, and affordable housing, and gave it to a rich person, also maybe trillions to Israel.. and since we dont trust you and you have expectations, we are going to open the gates of immigration so they can do jobs at salaries and condition no citizen would allow.
You appeal to the base to get the nom, after to get the nom, you move to the center to win the general. Politics 101.
Leftists are to the Democratic party as the MAGA were to the GOP. Tendency to be single issue voters that have no understanding of how government works, weird ideas about some radical changes will improve their lives (which won't) and no understanding of the actual changes needed that would improve things. Buying into populists that promise to fix everything in a day.
The problem is the MAGA took over the GOP and are now trying to do the weirdo policies that were promised to the base. It would be the same if leftists took over government, just a different group of people being harmed by policies based around slogans and ignorance.
But I doubt leftists have the dedication the MAGAs have, so likely they'll go back to being "uncommitted" before they can capture the Democratic party. They also engage with the American tradition of blaming the Democrats for everything (even when they aren't in power) while the MAGA types (Tea party, pro-life, states rights, christian nationalists, etc) were willing to vote GOP in every election while working to take over the party. I doubt slacktivists will have that dedication.
But the good news is that MAGAs might also go back to being non-voters because of the Epstein thing. So maybe some day the US can be run by serious people instead of populist clowns. If it doesn't collapse before that because of the current populist clown in chief.
That is a massive oversimplification and seemingly a blatant misunderstanding.
You don't seem to have a counter for the comparison between leftists and MAGAs other than the left-right social construct. These groups aren't significantly different, I've had conversations with both leftists and MAGAs and the conversations and they are the same conversation on all but a few topics.
Every day the two groups become more similar to each other and now we're at a point that it's only if someone inserts a slogan or mentions a specific ethnic group they dislike that I can tell the difference between a MAGA and a leftist. And that's not always a reliable indicator sometimes since both MAGA and leftists sometimes hate the same ethnic groups.
