Mamdami is the up and coming new progressive Democrat. We can blame pecularities in national American politics for the duopoly, but a whole party can be transformed from within when an existential necessity presents itself.
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Oh yeah? If he’s really a Democrat why isn’t he campaigning against wokeness on FOX News like both Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams are? How come he hasn’t taken millions from ultra conservative superPACs like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries do? I doubt Mamdani’s even in Trump’s Signal chats.
aug 24, 2025, 3:40 pm • 15 0 • view
Phfft.
aug 24, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
As I keep telling folks, old guard Democrat is the legacy horse trading party even while the GOP is now trading in rabid zebras. New skills, new focuses are necessary, and it isn't necessarily to check off everything on every woke list in public either.
aug 24, 2025, 3:43 pm • 2 0 • view
Mamdani seems to be avoiding both the Scylla and the Charybdis so far.
aug 24, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
I feel you, but I disagree - I think navigating between ‘too woke’ and ‘not woke enough’ exactly describes the strategy of Schumer/Jeffries, but Mamdani’s avoiding that whole discourse and just having authentic conversations with constituents, which is perhaps the oldest winning game in politics.
aug 24, 2025, 4:17 pm • 12 1 • view
I guess there's something that Schumer and Jeffries could hypothetically do, like promise that if voters help them in 2016 and 2018 with a commanding Democratic majority they will press popular progressive measures. Everybody knows there's a GOP cabal right now doing its darndest.
aug 24, 2025, 6:03 pm • 1 0 • view
One such measure being expanding the Court.
aug 24, 2025, 6:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Also, there's no need to let the GOP "steal Christianity" either.
aug 24, 2025, 6:06 pm • 0 0 • view
(or any other religious following large enough to be a player)
aug 24, 2025, 6:07 pm • 0 0 • view
But if Schumer and Jeffries are not doing that, then other possible politicians could fill the gap by promising that if supported (support seen in both issue and election polls) they will press for leadership roles. This could put pressure on Schumer and Jeffries if they want to keep their spots.
aug 24, 2025, 6:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Though not ONLY from within. It takes new knocks on its door.
aug 24, 2025, 3:36 pm • 0 0 • view