New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s viral campaign videos are reaching millions on Instagram and TikTok, showcasing his cheerful populism and positive vision for the city.
This just highlights everything the Democrats did wrong during 2024. They really need to start taking notes, here.
Ha, good one. They prefer to blame everyone else.
The DNC, the New York Times reported, will “mostly steer clear of the decisions made by the Biden-turned-Harris campaign and will focus more heavily instead on actions taken by allied groups.”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/dnc-may-not-criticize-biden-harris-in-2024-autopsy.html
The chair literally said Mamdani’s campaign is an inspiration…
Literally the opposite of what you are implying…
Like, that article is just going off what the NYT said…
Why the absolute fuck is everyone listening to the same billionaire owned media that told us Biden was amazing?
The only reason they’re shitting on the DNC, is they don’t control it anymore.
Please don’t fall for the propaganda. Vote in Dem primaries.
Wish granted, well technically this was three weeks ago. So it’s more like you asked for something that already happened…
Amna Nawaz:
What do you take away from Zohran Mamdani’s New York City mayoral Democratic primary win? Are there lessons there for the party or the races?
Ken Martin: (DNC chair)
Well, first, it was a brilliant campaign. And there’s a lot of lessons.
One is, he campaigned for something. And this is a critical piece. We can’t just be in a perpetual state of resisting Donald Trump. Of course, we have to resist Donald Trump. There’s no doubt about it for all the reasons we just talked about. But we also have to give people a sense of what we’re for, what the Democratic Party is fighting for, and what we would do if they put us back in power.
And that’s really critical. And I think that’s one of the lessons from Mamdani’s campaign, is that he focused on affordability. He focused on a message that was resonant with voters, and he campaigned for something, not against other people or against other things. He campaigned on a vision of how he was going to make New York City a better place to live.
I think that’s one of the lessons. The other lessons, of course, is the tactics he used to get his message out, both a very aggressive in-person campaigning, meeting voters where they’re at, and then also in those digital spaces, using very creative messaging to cut through the noise and to get to voters in an inexpensive but authentic way.
There’s a lot to learn from that campaign, and I’m excited to learn more.
That all sounds good…but I won’t be holding my breath to see if he’s being sincere, just yet.
Theres a lot more going on, it’s just billionaire media won’t talk about it.
At this point I really just need to make a community for the good shit the DNC is doing. Having this conversation over and over again just isn’t effective .
Don’t be discouraged. People just need to see tangible results, before they’ll truly believe what you’re saying. I am hopeful, however…and do appreciate your optimism.
Oh by no means am I discouraged
The community would be less effort and an easy way to point people at all the other stuff the DNC has been doing. I’m just too lazy to keep digging all the links up.
I’ll probably end up setting it up soon.
At this point I really just need to make a community for the good shit the DNC is doing. Having this conversation over and over again just isn’t effective.
But seriously, that’s a good idea and I (with positivity) encourage you to do it!
Frankly, I wouldn’t have believed you either, if it weren’t for me remembering how critical you used to be of the Democrats before the change in leadership.
Anna Nawaz. When asked if they will endorse him. “Fuck No” probably. The DNC actions don’t show to the words this person put out. They are more likely working on how to keep people like him out of running in their rigged primaries. If it wasn’t for rank choice voting he probably wouldn’t have won.
Culminating in 2024, but “everything the Democrats have done wrong” reaches back about 25 years at least.
Probably started somewhere around the indentured servitude to the oligarchs.
“Willing supplicancy” is more like it. Your comment implies that the new liberal Democrats didn’t actively court this for decades.
Who would have guessed that people would respond well to a politician who listens to the people.
who would have guessed that when the democrats don’t collude to either purposefully lose or ratfuck the left to put in a candidate essentially indistinguishable from the republicans that it would result in a candidate people actually like and who wants to do good things
edit: sorry I mean when they don’t SUCCESSFULLY collude for either of those purposes
Gosh when you talk about issues that affect the working class, you get positive results. Hmmm…🤔, “outside the box” thinking. Not comparing him to Trump in any way, but wasn’t that how Trump won over the working class by false progressive promises of fixing the economy (which he will F’ck up) and healthcare (which he will ignore,) lower food prices (which his tariffs will raise by the end of the year?)
I hope Zohran’s campaign waves spark a better working class party. As for the Democrats, will he transform like most progressives in the DNC, into an AOC, sheep-herding voters into voting for neo-liberals? Time will tell. He unfortunately can’t ever run for president being a foreigner, but love the ‘shake-up’ he is creating.
I hope Zohran’s campaign waves spark a better working class party
The irony is you don’t know the current chair of the DNC was the chair of the Working Family Party in Minnesota for like a decade until taking the lead at the DNC and has publicly said Mamdani is an inspiration for what Dems need to be doing at large
Like, in the time it took you to type all that. You could have read an article about how what you want literally already happened.
running for president
leading the vanguardJokes aside there’s plenty of room on the national stage for milquetoast social democracy. The Dems are centered somewhere around Richard Nixon. Just easy shit like universal healthcare / childcare and god forbid some state direct investment would help so, so many people. NYC is interesting too bc the population is so massive some of these things could be contemplated in miniature (public healthcare option for New Yorkers, for example)
Still not counting chickens before they hatch, but here’s to hoping we get to see what he does in office. If the primary is any indication he may turn out to be a person of courage and conviction yet. God knows we need one.
When I was growing up, I always heard that you get more conservative as you age. I turn 52 soon, and I seem to keep moving further left with every year. Turns out no, everyone doesn’t stop giving a shit about the people younger than themselves, that’s just the fucking Boomers. The ‘Me’ generation. This entire generation seems to think the world started when they were born and will cease to exist the moment they die. World War II spawned a generation of narcissists.
If you run on actual progressive policies that enhance the lives of everyday Americans, you win support. Whether this will lead to winning elections under the Trump Regime remains to be seen, after all, “I only won Pennsylvania because Elon knows how those vote counting computers work.”
Holy shit! If you give the voters what they want, they fucking vote for you! Holy shit!
