Republicans got their midterms bogeyman in Zohran Mamdani. Now comes the challenge: making the incoming New York City mayor’s brand of democratic socialism sink candidates outside his liberal bubble. They’re getting right to it. Republicans’ House campaign arm launched digital ads Wednesday morning across 49 battleground districts tying Democrats to the “socialist mayor” who “built his movement on defunding the police and abolishing ICE.”
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Not just this, but the entire idea of making groceries and rent a little bit more affordable is suddenly “communism”
This is a bunch of crazy bullshit spewed by Republicans to get you scared of doing the right thing and voting for this guy
Calling “making things affordable” communism is how you convert people to communism.
Ironically, true
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I was about to say, they’re only doing it this way because you can’t just have them killed openly.
JFK isn’t on this chat, but I expect he’d have a comment.
Well it’s only different from the 50’s in the sense that wealth disparity is beyond that of the 1920’s and the current red scare doesn’t have a preceding 20yrs of socialist reforms propping up the economic conditions for the laborers.
Given the outpouring of support nationwide for Mamdani, this feels like a bold move. If they misjudge the population, this could end up providing unprecedented support for these candidates rather than scaring people away from them.
Hopefully we can capture this moment in time and use the momentum to establish real progressives in high places.
A vote for Bart is a vote for Anarchy!
A VOTE FOR BART IS A VOTE FOR ANARCHY!!!
abolishing ICE
Fuck yeah! Sign me up for whoever is saying that.
Republicans run straight to the lie factory instead of fixing shit they broke. Figures.
Two centrists win races for governor: crickets
One socialist wins a mayorship: “OMG! THE DEMOCRATS ARE ALL COMMUNISTS!!!”
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Not to mention, they’ve been saying the democrats are all communists no matter who it is including Biden and Kamala so not sure what this is going to change.
It’s like their parents never told them the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf
That’s probably why democrats were afraid of endorsing Mamdani.
Well, they were clearly idiots then, weren’t they? Completely out of touch and having utterly misread the political moment. To be relegated to the dustbin. Valueless.
Let’s see if Mamdani does anything he said he will or if he just ends up being a Trump on the left before we start gloating.
What makes you think he’s a liar? One of Mamdani’s biggest wins in the assembly was getting the taxi drivers’ debt limited due to De Blasio using medallion prices to fill a budget shortfall.
He’s promised a lot plus he films iPhone videos vertical.
Former television camera operator here - vertical videos used to annoy me, being used to shooting with a 16:9 widescreen canvas. But if 90% of your audience is watching your content on a phone screen, why WOULDN’T you shoot 9:16? Landscape video is only good for TVs and computer monitors. You know it makes sense.
No. Now we revel in how consistently and perpetually wrong your takes (conservative democrat/ moderate democrat) are.
How they are not predictive of anything, what-so-ever.
How the positions you advocate for persistently result in self-sabotage for Democrats.
No. Now we revel.
Now is when we make it clear to the “centrists” and “moderates” of the party that they are why fascism has risen in this country; and that there is a clear and functional antidote in the progressive movement.
He’s promised a lot so winning was just a tiny first step in his journey.
I think both of us can agree that we want a politician who’s not all lip service and doesn’t do anything.
The point is that we’ve already won, because this was barely a fight for the office: it was primarily a fight to defeat the kind of cynicism that has repeatedly and persistently lost Democrats elections.
If and what gets done is materially secondary. There will be some W’s, there will be some L’s, but its functionally irrelevant, because quite literally nothing is possible when political cynicism is your guiding compass.
And its so, incredibly, obvious.
Our problem has never been whether or not idealistic goals can be achieved, its only ever been if we can overcome the cynicism, the utter fraudulence of “moderation” and “centrism” as political ideology. Its the hollowness of these political ideologies that has broken American politics. Trumpism, fascism, the fact that there are literal neo-nazis in government: these are a direct result of the political cynicism which has sat at the heart of the Democratic party since 1977.
If and what gets done is materially secondary. There will be some W’s, there will be some L’s, but its functionally irrelevant, because quite literally nothing is possible when political cynicism is your guiding compass.
This mentality is why I called him Trump on the left.
This mentality is why I called him Trump on the left.
And thankfully, we can finally bury this kind of toxicity, and point at the exact mentality, mindset, and political calculus you use as the very reason Democrats lose elections.
Its clear that you’ve never investigated your own mindset to its logical conclusion: that because nothing is guaranteed to be possible we shouldn’t try.
But all that really matters now, moving forwards, is that we have the entire evidence set required to just dismiss your political identity outright. The utter void which this political perspective represents: we can clearly point at exactly what you think, and how you think it, as being why fascism has risen in this country.
And we now have everything we need to justifiably put you on the bench and make the positive argument that you need to be ignored. That you are harmful to democracies, because if you are listened to, fascism becomes inevitable.
