There are specific states where this is hard (really just New York I think), but I think the more people just do it, the more the cordon sanitaire weakens.
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Why do you say that? Mamdani just did it and won the most votes in a NYC mayoral primary ever.
sep 2, 2025, 12:59 am • 2 0 • view
Against an unusually weak candidate, among the most left-wing electorate in the state. If you add in heavily Jewish suburbs of the city, the dynamic changes.
sep 2, 2025, 1:01 am • 26 0 • view
Put another way: the parents of Mamdanis's leftist Jewish voters live in Westchester and LI, and they're fucking insane.
sep 2, 2025, 1:05 am • 0 0 • view
Also he’s mayor. He doesn’t hold the fate of Israel in his hands the way the media seemed to pretend.
sep 2, 2025, 1:04 am • 12 0 • view
Maybe wouldn’t change much. Normie liberal jews are pissed at Israel. A skilled candidate who can avoid anti-semitism pitfalls can probably say he’s going to kick netanyahus ass
sep 2, 2025, 1:20 am • 5 0 • view
I think it makes the dance a lot more precarious than elsewhere. Like, look at how Rye and towns like it voted in 2024 vis a vis Bowman.
sep 2, 2025, 1:27 am • 7 0 • view
I think there are a lot of normie liberal jews pissed at Israel who also don't like candidates who criticize Israel a lot especially ones who aren't Jewish and it shows up in vote numbers.
sep 2, 2025, 2:27 am • 2 0 • view
read the thing you posted again
sep 2, 2025, 1:18 am • 4 0 • view
Like I do think this would count against a candidate where I am (purple NY suburbs), but even here not by as much as one might think.
sep 2, 2025, 1:16 am • 10 0 • view
Seems like every Jewish Democrat I know has more or less come around to the idea that the state of Israel needs to be stopped. Most think of this just as a Netanyahu problem, though, and most were not here in 2023 or 2024. But they're there now.
sep 2, 2025, 2:30 am • 9 0 • view