Mamdani has appointed Jeffrey Lerner—a former top Obama White House aide and Democratic National Committee political director—as his communications chief.
You appeal to the base to get the nom, after to get the nom, you move to the center to win the general. Politics 101.
Leftists are to the Democratic party as the MAGA were to the GOP. Tendency to be single issue voters that have no understanding of how government works, weird ideas about some radical changes will improve their lives (which won’t) and no understanding of the actual changes needed that would improve things. Buying into populists that promise to fix everything in a day.
The problem is the MAGA took over the GOP and are now trying to do the weirdo policies that were promised to the base. It would be the same if leftists took over government, just a different group of people being harmed by policies based around slogans and ignorance.
But I doubt leftists have the dedication the MAGAs have, so likely they’ll go back to being “uncommitted” before they can capture the Democratic party. They also engage with the American tradition of blaming the Democrats for everything (even when they aren’t in power) while the MAGA types (Tea party, pro-life, states rights, christian nationalists, etc) were willing to vote GOP in every election while working to take over the party. I doubt slacktivists will have that dedication.
But the good news is that MAGAs might also go back to being non-voters because of the Epstein thing. So maybe some day the US can be run by serious people instead of populist clowns. If it doesn’t collapse before that because of the current populist clown in chief.
You don’t seem to have a counter for the comparison between leftists and MAGAs other than the left-right social construct. These groups aren’t significantly different, I’ve had conversations with both leftists and MAGAs and the conversations and they are the same conversation on all but a few topics.
Every day the two groups become more similar to each other and now we’re at a point that it’s only if someone inserts a slogan or mentions a specific ethnic group they dislike that I can tell the difference between a MAGA and a leftist. And that’s not always a reliable indicator sometimes since both MAGA and leftists sometimes hate the same ethnic groups.
You appeal to the base to get the nom, after to get the nom, you move to the center to win the general. Politics 101.
Leftists are to the Democratic party as the MAGA were to the GOP. Tendency to be single issue voters that have no understanding of how government works, weird ideas about some radical changes will improve their lives (which won’t) and no understanding of the actual changes needed that would improve things. Buying into populists that promise to fix everything in a day.
The problem is the MAGA took over the GOP and are now trying to do the weirdo policies that were promised to the base. It would be the same if leftists took over government, just a different group of people being harmed by policies based around slogans and ignorance.
But I doubt leftists have the dedication the MAGAs have, so likely they’ll go back to being “uncommitted” before they can capture the Democratic party. They also engage with the American tradition of blaming the Democrats for everything (even when they aren’t in power) while the MAGA types (Tea party, pro-life, states rights, christian nationalists, etc) were willing to vote GOP in every election while working to take over the party. I doubt slacktivists will have that dedication.
But the good news is that MAGAs might also go back to being non-voters because of the Epstein thing. So maybe some day the US can be run by serious people instead of populist clowns. If it doesn’t collapse before that because of the current populist clown in chief.
That is a massive oversimplification and seemingly a blatant misunderstanding.
You don’t seem to have a counter for the comparison between leftists and MAGAs other than the left-right social construct. These groups aren’t significantly different, I’ve had conversations with both leftists and MAGAs and the conversations and they are the same conversation on all but a few topics.
Every day the two groups become more similar to each other and now we’re at a point that it’s only if someone inserts a slogan or mentions a specific ethnic group they dislike that I can tell the difference between a MAGA and a leftist. And that’s not always a reliable indicator sometimes since both MAGA and leftists sometimes hate the same ethnic groups.