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.
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.