Yeah this is the liberal line he tows. There must be good landlords, good cops, good capitalists, it’s the bad ones we need to go after. It’s how he won and also he could drop it now and would be even more popular, but I think he really believes it
I’m more speaking to his earnestness as a socialist. Doing charity and being the best democrat is good for the short term material conditions of New York renters but it will inevitably need to go further than that to be more than a win for the bourgeois party. If he doesn’t fully believe in socialist principles (knowing that literally all landlords and capitalists are truly bad and the problem), he won’t go any farther than “most progressive Democrat” which serves the interest of Democrats more than anyone
he was never a communist, and it depends if people think he’s a regular democrat or something else when they see national democrats shitting the bed on ICE and stuff.
If there was ever a time where gains to local politics were disconnected from national parties it’s now, and there’s sometimes a history of american local politics being disjointed from national, e.g. blue stats and republican governors.
This community is ostensibly communist, and people don’t do that calculus, if a democrat makes gains while cooperating with party elites (Jeffries et al), those gains will not make the party seem worse
the party elites have dug themselves an incredibly deep hole, and libs are starting to be after their heads. If Mamdani does something good with their cooperation it’s not going to move the needle much for normal people, they’re starting to cult for the guy, not for the democratic party.
that’s a different problem, but it’s not the party stealing valor.
Yeah this is the liberal line he tows. There must be good landlords, good cops, good capitalists, it’s the bad ones we need to go after. It’s how he won and also he could drop it now and would be even more popular, but I think he really believes it
Sure, but if he actually improves conditions for New York renters, then quibbling over language is a secondary concern.
I’m more speaking to his earnestness as a socialist. Doing charity and being the best democrat is good for the short term material conditions of New York renters but it will inevitably need to go further than that to be more than a win for the bourgeois party. If he doesn’t fully believe in socialist principles (knowing that literally all landlords and capitalists are truly bad and the problem), he won’t go any farther than “most progressive Democrat” which serves the interest of Democrats more than anyone
If he improves conditions for New Yorkers, the gains go to his Democratic Party, not the communist movement
he was never a communist, and it depends if people think he’s a regular democrat or something else when they see national democrats shitting the bed on ICE and stuff.
If there was ever a time where gains to local politics were disconnected from national parties it’s now, and there’s sometimes a history of american local politics being disjointed from national, e.g. blue stats and republican governors.
This community is ostensibly communist, and people don’t do that calculus, if a democrat makes gains while cooperating with party elites (Jeffries et al), those gains will not make the party seem worse
the party elites have dug themselves an incredibly deep hole, and libs are starting to be after their heads. If Mamdani does something good with their cooperation it’s not going to move the needle much for normal people, they’re starting to cult for the guy, not for the democratic party.
that’s a different problem, but it’s not the party stealing valor.