Democrats are really gonna have to show their true face on this one. I hope it hurts them
i used to think like this as well; but watching someone like biden be heralded as the most pro-gay president ever; despite his anti-gay campaigns from the 80’s and people still insisting that he was despite signing an anti-trans bill at the end of his tenure; makes me think that no one pays attention when democrats show thier true faces.
I wouldn’t count him out yet. He’s clearly popular, and the people are starting to feel the frustration with the Democratic party as the world collapses.
You are probably right
The democrat voter base is entirely to self involved in the idea they are part of the opposition, they don’t take the time to reflect on their role in the bigger systemic issues. All they know is that brunch isn’t enjoyable with the orange man in charge.
No no, they aren’t part of the opposition, they are the only opposition, because everyone else is doing opposition wrong by actually opposing things.
“Democrats may have shown their faces, but they slightly less openly fascist than the Republicans! No, I don’t have a problem applying whataboutism here!!”
whataboutery for meee but not for thee
whataboutism 
- whataboutism
Sounds like she’s withholding her endorsement to use it as a bargaining chip to move him right. We’ll see how hard he gets hit by the media, and potentially unions and other institutions. It looks like there will be two independents, running Cuomo and some guy walden. I’m assuming they’ll pull more voters from the dems than the gop, but we’ll see.
In the few times when candidates like this have won primaries, they have gotten smothered in the general elections. I have no idea how much pressure or danger he is under.
Incumbent Eric Adams is running as an independent too
slamming
Joy can be neither created nor destroyed: this is the first law of emodynamics. Every time an individual’s vocal chords vibrate, another individual is slammed to the ground with proportional force. Don’t be a pleasure hog, your every smile is a dagger. Vote yes on proposition 1231: think of some kids, some kids.
Everything these days is a slam. It’s to the point that the word has almost no meaning any more. All of it’s weight and gravity have been lost and diluted through it’s excessive usage by main steam media. It used to be that you could identify a slam pretty easily, we had significant cultural markers that illustrated precisely what a slam was. Through the 90s Michael Jordan was the slam king, which peaked with the pure cinema classic, Space Jam, and the climactic full court dunk against the Monstars. Slama-jama. Another significant moment illustrating the pure power a slam should evoke, came in 1998, when The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table. Now that’s what I call, slam. Today you express even the most milk toast and expected opinion, and that constitutes a slam. The bar is to low. This is why Space Jam 2 performed so horribly. Nobody knows what a slam is anymore.
“Everybody get up, it’s time to slam now We got a real jam goin’ down“
Is this journalism?
I said hey you whatcha gonna do,
I said hey you whatcha gonna do,
I said hey you whatcha gonna do,
Uh-Oh!
I really hope Mamdani had studied what they did to Corbyn and has developed an effective strategy to combat it
Demsocs never do so. If they did, they wouldn’t be demsocs.
The ground is moving fast under our feet. I think the social conditions that defeated Corbyn have already changed. When he was defeated you didn’t have a peep in the American right wing sphere about being anti-war and now you have nearly all right wing talking heads and some elected officials like MTG going full anti-war in a way I’ve never seen in my lifetime. It doesn’t matter if they’re doing it for the wrong reasons. Its clear they’re trying to take a populist position here, but it does create a vacuum in the space.
If the conservative wings can’t find a populist message about NYC and instead keep hammering home this line of attack centered on Israel and his identity, they’re going to suffer for it. Attacking his identity only shows their hand and only appeals to a narrow slice of people. Its like they’ve hit the tipping point on the idpol scale and people are done with aligning themselves purely on identity. They have 2001 era strategies still in 2025 and they forget that Oct. 7th happened in Israel, not America, and the average liberal in America has a short attention span. The bloodlust over Oct. 7th hasn’t endured in the same way as 9/11. That history set the conditions that render its tactics and strategies inert for a wide band of people.
IDK, this is mostly vibe analysis, but I get the sense people in NYC seem hungry for something new after Eric Adams. Adams has deeply harmed status quo Democrats and harmed alignment on identity in NYC.
Mamdani’s continued insistence on getting back to the issues when someone brings up Israel I think goes a long way. Its like a judo throw for interviews, taking the interviewer or debate moderators energy and redirecting it. Their inability to not ask him about Israel creates this paper trail that shows how little these people actually care about NYC.
Again, this is analysis is very much fueled by hopium, so take it for what it is.
Hochul is literally the furthest right a “democrat” can defensibly be. Zohran is a big deal specifically for overcoming the machine in NY that has kept politics in the city and state intensely conservative for decades
I thought NY was deeply blue ?
the fun thing about US bourgeois democracy is that the safer the seat is, red-or-blue, the party sees that as license to go against the wishes of their constituents, instead of delivering. when there’s a chance of losing maybe they feel compelled to deliver.
i was probably exaggerating with Hochul as the right-est, but the dems own the NY governorship so she gets to be nakedly rightwing cause what will the people do about it? elect the even more racist republican? woman personally threw billions of public money away in order to save her million-billionaire pals a couple bucks in parking fees
Interesting
Hochul runs for reelection in 2026 and worries that Mamdani will support someone else, or wrench concessions from her that will irritate her millionaire donors.
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