Establishment Democrats looking to recover from 2024’s losses fear Mamdani could hurt the party’s brand nationally
don’t they know only going right is the only acceptable solution!
This reminds me of the 2021 mayoral election in Buffalo, NY, where a progressive won the Democrat primary, but the conservatives (both Republicans and establishment Democrats) joined forces to back the establishment candidate in the general election.
Reality check: Many Democratic Party leaders had believed Mamdani’s past comments would be disqualifying to most primary voters. They were wrong.
They will continue being wrong for the foreseeable future as well, because they don’t understand how to motivate a user base.
They don’t want to motivate a voter base. They want to continue collecting giant checks from corporate donors and the 1%.
The democrats are a business, not a political party
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I mean love 'em or hate 'em but fascists are experts in engaging youth, political organizing and direct action.
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The answer is simple: They don’t want people to take care of their communities; to them that tax money should be going to billionaires and corporations (and, by extension, themselves). The actions of the DNC make a lot more sense if you assume they don’t stand for any of the things they claim to stand for.
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Same reason they picked Harris: they’re drinking their own kool-aid on identity politics. Just like how because Harris is a black woman they tried to sell her as a progressive feminist and not the bootlicking prosecutor she actually is, they assumed that because Walz was an old white guy he was only pretending to use progressive rhetoric and shat their pants when they realized he was genuine about it.
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That… is a fair point. In that case I have no idea.
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Other Democrats see Mamdani — a state Assembly member with a history of controversial comments about Israel and policing — as politically toxic for a party whose national success depends on its ability to attract votes in less progressive places nationwide.
So, to the DNC, it’s better to see the winning Democratic candidate defeated in the general now because that will ensure victory in Alabama in a year or three? The propaganda machine will smear anyone who dares to run with a D next to their name. You might as well own it and embrace the positions your voters want.
… that will ensure victory in Alabama …
Narrator: It won’t.
*continue to lost Alabama for the foreseeable future
They would rather hem and haw over how they think the public might respond somewhere else than motivate the user base that chose that candidate and spread that out to other areas.
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
How quickly we forget what happened to Bernie Sanders in 2016
Good.
