I’m a lifelong Democrat, 71 yrs old & they seem to be afraid of his youth. I think it’s fabulous myself. Time for the younger folks!

i think a certain class of Democrat is fearful that Democratic Socialists will be called Communists by the Fascists aka Republicans

It probably was: “This campaign is for every person who believes in the dignity of their neighbors and that the government's job is to actually make our lives better.” -Zohran Mamdani

They disagree with winning elections

They're only there to provide grist for the Overton window. They don't actually want anything to change.

Their top priority isn't winning elections, it's to stop progressive ideals. Because poverty reduction is a huge threat to their billionaire donors.

Islamophobia is very real in the USA. Even more than socialistophobia.

I’m a Democrat & one of my biggest criticisms is that Democrats eat their own. It truly is ridiculous. No group of people are going to have exactly the same ideas all of the time. There are going to be differences, even among Dems. The difference should be that we give differences room to be had.

He's running for Mayor for crying out loud.

His appeal transcends NYC and the old Dem Guard knows it.

I dunno but I am really enjoying how he is exposing their racist hypocrisy Democrats been milking their unearned "racial progressive" lable while exploiting minorities for far too long They can get FUKT

They need to resign, go away, quit, whatever they just need to be gone

He said he wants to help the poor and tax the rich! Horror upon horrors!

He is a brown immigrant who wants to help the poor and tax the rich. He wants to help with child care, affordable groceries, rent control and free buses. @schumer.senate.gov @senatedems25.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social @ericswalwell.bsky.social and the rest of the DNC don't want him to.

Today’s establishment Democrats are yesterday’s moderate Republicans….. they punch Left way harder than they ever punch Right….

The same situation with Labour in the UK. Weird how the "centre-left" are more comfortable with the right than left.

Yeah, they tell us center right is left.

Truth.

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Because he actually intends to do what he said. They still want their paychecks.

He's a socialist, so everything he says is poison to them. Even if they agree with some or even all of those things, because SOCIALISM BAD. They still equate socialism to dictatorship, and they also don't want to lose their corporate gravy train. That, and he's not white. Or Christian.

Huh. Being a socialist means serving the people. Gosh this is indoctrination.

Of course they would not know about social democracies. Geez

MAGA conflates socialism with communism, marxism, and fascism. I had thought democrats were above such simple-minded thinking.

I had th same question, so I googled "what did Mamdani say," from which I found that th objectionable thing was his call to "globalize the Intifada." He says that he meant by that that he wanted th whole world to understand the plight if th Palestinians, but that is not common usage of th word.

I’m a dem and he’s a bit radical and extreme even for me. But he’s still better than cuomo or a maga nut

Mahmdani looks much more attractive than Vance.

Sorry, spelled his name wrong. 🫤

They want to keep the old white pasty crumbling status quo 🤷🏾‍♀️

This is already getting old. I see a little more people bashing dems....

Because progressives don't consider themselves democrats. I have seen many posts celebrating his win saying shitlibs and shitdems. Why I am turned off to him and being part of the DSA who are in favor of bashing dems while using dem money and infrastructure when they want to run for office

And then they wonder why they cant win elections and blame the "establishment".

Because both parties are establishment and Mamdani isn't

We need to be 100% unified to even have a chance of pushing back against this fascist surge. Thank you for your attention to this matter

ISN’T IT IRONIC?

Yep

This.

Yes, THIS 👍😉😊

FOLLOW THE FUKKKIN MONEY www.trackaipac.com

Only the AIPAC ones www.trackaipac.com

I’m afraid that’s most of them.

He’s dared to do the things democrats say they’re going to do but ultimately never get around to. Like inspiring and exciting working class people and having good ideas.

They are clinging to life.

As irrelevant as their definition of that is, for the old guard party.

he's a brown muslim and apparently we can't have nice things in this country. fuckin geriatric cunts, fuck them

He's Muslim and he's brown. Make no mistake - Dems are every bit as prejudiced as Republicans.

There's a lot of images of fake Twitter posts going around, some of them genuine attempts at misinformation, some of them humorous satire. I'll admit, one of the funny one's got me going for a bit.

As for me, the jury's still out on the guy, don't know much about him. But I'm guessing they're reacting this way because their power base is threatened, and they don't have the ability or intent to offer any genuine or effective solutions on their own.

Democrats who are servants of lobbyists & mega donors are keen to use Jews as human shields to advance the interests of Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli government.

He scares the rich donors and those who depend on them.

The man has a target on his back. I sure hope he watches out, I would hate to see another death because he wants to fix a broken system.

It’s because Mamdani is not in the pockets of the billionaire class, unlike all of the republicans and some of the democrats

He wants to do good for others and politicians are supposed to be doing things for just themselves or for the corporations that lord over them with donations.

When you’re a POC, you actually don’t need to say anything to be condemned. But, if you do say something — like express your opinion — watch out! The hate really 📈

Being progressive.

The part where he says he wants to make people’s lives better.

👍👊 Yes. He IS the disruptor who the people listen to and want. This disturbs the Dem hierarchy. They better get over it. The future is coming and it's not Chuck Schumer. It's really not hard to remake the Dem party. We're doing it here. Just go to the county meetings. They back down right away.

The more they try to smear and go after him the more popular and anti-establishment he becomes.

It's his skim color and the sound of his name. It equals a murderous Muslim - apparently. I had to call out my own father on that BS. Asked him when he went to work for ice

The Democrats are toast … we need a new progressive party.

I'm convinced they have their own racists within the party....

He said he wasn't on the bandwagon.

Fuck AIPAC.

He's getting the Bernie Sanders treatment.

Billionaires don't like him

Any democrat condemning him should be targeted to be primaried

Mamdani’s appeal shines light on the mistake of Biden/Harris’s strategy of appealing to the moderates. Give the people something to vote for and they will come out in droves.

The old rich Dem guard doesn’t want to loose power.

Democratic machine suppressed leaders like Bernie Sanders and drove many voters toward Trump. Democratic leadership have learned nothing and they persevere in their desire to exclude Democratic politicians who dare to represent the people instead of the mega donors.

Oh the only thing he did was make them see that they’re old guard power structure is crumbling. They’re ineffective and no one wants to hear from them. It’s got them anxious. 😉

Certain parts of the Democratic old guard must be removed. They are out of touch with what their base is filling needing and wanting. Most often they don’t know what to do and then when they do make a move is always wrong.

It's because he's out there demonstrating how feckless and weak the rest of them are, threatening their influence.

Nothing. Some Dems eat their own and here we are, again.

🤬 WTF!

Because he beat the rich white pervert

maybe -- didnt change his name fast enough ?

They do it for attention because they have no real achievements of their own to discuss. Life can be lonely when you've got nothing to say.

Fkn they don't know.

The issue is, the dem establishment is more afraid of losing their hold over the party than they are about losing the country

Close. They own the party. They aren't afraid of losing it. Establishment dems politicians want to keep getting their corporAte donor & PAC money. They keep their money by keeping the left out of politics, and by keeping their politics in the "center." Same story since the 80s/90s.

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Spot on! 💯

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He's a Democrat. Democrats don't like that.

He's making the majority of them look like the a$$holes they have become.

He had the audacity to respond to a question about what “globalize the intifada” actually meant.

He upset the AIPAC money cart.

Terrified! Terrified! Terrified of free buses!

And feeding people! Holy shit.

And the child care! Let's not forget the hordes of child care!

Affordable housing? Get me outta this socialist hell hole!

“I’m Muslim” Is that what he said?

Old school Dems feel threatened.

Because he's threatening to upend the status quo. And the Democratic establishment isn't too keen on engaging in self-reflection, methinks.

Same old thing. Corporate Dems will always put money interests over people. They may as well be Republicans. I agree that we shouldn't create a hostile business environment, but we already have an environment that is hostile to all but the wealthiest people. Government is for the people.

They hate him because he's not bought with corporate $$$ like they are and it shows.

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He celebrated the Challenger explosion before he was born. Duh!

He's actually trying to enact change and he didn't wait his little turn.

It's what they are not saying: he's gonna tax the rich! Oh no!

It's just the shitty Democrats outing themselves. Clean the shit out!!

He is just different.

Probably taking “intifada” and “from the river to the sea” out of context.

If I had to guess, that he has critiques of capitalism

He threatened their continuing business as usual.

He said he would put a wealth tax on those making over 1 million and making transit free and freezing rent. Actually looking out for the working class. Goes against what corporate dems, want puts less money into their campaign.

There is not a more thoroughly discredited idea in politics than rent control.

Remember when the boomers said “Don’t trust anybody over thirty!”? Now the boomers say “Don’t trust anyone worth under thirty million!”

He won for a reason.

Not all Democrats. Just the rich centrists. Stop making it all about Democrats. Those rich centrist should be primaried but stop grouping all Democrats as not supporting Mamdani.

Ali

How’s “globalize the intifada” for starters? Or the day after Hamas terrorists killed 1200 & took 251 captive, Mamdani puts out his response by attacking the Israeli gov’t. There’s plenty to go after the Israeli gov’t on but choosing to do it Oct 8th 2023, that speaks volumes about who Mamdani is.

Because Israel started it, encouraged it, and are completely ok with ethnic cleansing.

They disagree with him because he has a spine. Current Dems would rather write stern letters than do anything about the shit they incessantly whine about every day — stuff they have the power to change.

The establishment need to keep all suckers paying taxes and protecting all their dinosaurs in power; when someone step out line this is the way the establishment reacts (both parties).

Because he is trying to do good for the people. You think anyone in the two parties actually care about people? They just care about the businesses his policies would hurt.

He said we should tax the rich

Dems need to start getting behind candidates that can actually WIN races and stop boosting those who are proven losers but “deserve their shot”. Stop being victims.

his name

Eric Adams and Cuomo democrat’s maybe

The pearl clutching from the democratic press is hilarious.

He's not a white good ole boy, end of story.

His name? 🤔

I don’t get it either.

The establishment Dems are pissed. And terrified.

Good. They're useless.

Mamdani is a brown-skinned Muslim man. They've kinda accepted Muslim women in politics. A male is just going too far for them.

Sadly, yeah 😠

He said he wanted to make people's lives better AND he has practical, bold plans to do that. All Democrats say the first part. Few Democrats want to do the second part.

Seems like it, huh? 👍🤨

Sorry which Dems? And without knowing, I’m sure it’s Israel.

Ah Gillibrand. ✅✅🙄🙄🤮🤮

He didn’t want to go to the promised land for his first trip.

Because Democrats are just Republicans with better publicity.

Obviously, he had the audacity to say, "I'm not going to keep doing all this dumb shit that hasn't been working."

That's it.

So crazy.

At this point, they just want the grievance. They just want to blame their poor on anyone fox news tells them too.

They're afraid that Republicans are gonna use him as a boogeyman in their propaganda, thus getting more Republicans elected. I honestly can see that happening.

Republicans are already starting the equating all Dems with Mamdani. Dems will struggle with that because while Dems govern much better than Repubs, Rs play the game of getting to govern much better than Ds.

Oh, you know, just saying generic centrist things that could bridge the gap between the radical pro-homeless and anti-homeless demographics. The Democratic Party is still by and large right of center.

Their ability to pretend they care about us by only making strongly worded statements and engaging in performative filibusters that have changed nothing

I hope I never condemn any Democrat. I may condemn a particular action but not the person (except Fetterman). Mamdanis progressivism may not align with everyone but nobody checks all the boxes. We’re in this together so we need cohesion. We also need his campaign’s ENTHUSIASM. Remember 2008?

Fetterman.....and Sinema.....and Schumer....and Manchin......and.....and..... This isnt a one person issue. Its a rot within the party. If the party didnt hamstring Sanders in 2016, we wouldn't be talking about Trump, or ICE, or invading Greenland, or concentration camps, or WW3 or.....

My opinion ONLY: Biden didn’t run in 2016 because the Democrats made a back door deal with Hillary in 2008. Joe didn’t back out because of grief. Biden would have handily beat Trump in 2016 and Trump would be nothing but a meme. Like Palin. Once again, just my unsolicited opinion.

Eh. The only reason he would win is the same reason Hillary won the primary. Its because they would stab Bernie in the back then (to less effect, cant play girl card). Would he win? Who knows. He represents all the bad stuff Hillary did, and would run the same campaign.

Biden winning represented more how bad Trump did in his first term than Bidens ability.

Ty..good reminder

"Billionaires might be bad"?

Him winning, lol!

The fetterman guy

Dear God, many of us realize dem dems condemning Zohran ARE GOP INFILTRATES

Start making lists for the primaries.

I didn't know that some Dems are having issues with trying to do the best thing possible for their constituents. I thought that was just the right. I guess we had better stop electing the do nothing's.

They disagree with the loss of all that juicy AIPAC/Israeli money they won’t get if they agree with a Muslim. AIPAC is a stain. Their intentions are insular, Zionist and support a war criminal in his current obvious genocide. Their Holocaust ancestors would vomit if they could see Israel now.

Reasons . . . OG . . . reasons . . .

You don't need to say anything for MAGA to hate you Just not be them

I d say: Be my guest. Step in.

Israel

He has “ a funny sounding name”

Democrats in panic mode because they actually have to do their fucking jobs now or the entire gig is up.

He's popular with the working class. And he is likely to win. Both of these are strictly against establishment Democrat strategies.

Sadly

They require him to swear fealty to Israel. 🇮🇱 Mamdani would rather run NYC like he’s supposed to than be an AIPAC dog

I’ve never felt further left 🤷‍♀️

He's not a plant of the super-rich illuminati..........

tax the rich

He didn't bow down to Israel and he made billionaire donors nervous.

He’s scaring all those establishment Democrats cause now they know, we are tired of their shit!

+20k$ per million in new taxes. They're just being greedy

They don't like him unbeholden to corporate donors.

He's a brown Muslim, so they are projecting all sorts of anti-Semitic stuff on him he didn't say. The racism is pretty pungent at this point.

Because he isn't scared to say, that he would put Netanyahu behind bars.

He's brown We are a broken nation

Yes Sir, we are 😧

It's time for progressives to splinter from the democratic party

To lock in Republican supermajorities in most places for a generation?

This just highlights that a lot of Dems are in on the authoritarian takeover. The are controlled by the rich.

He’s young, smart and won’t be lead by an old white establishment that DOES NOT WORK in modern times. Or at least that’s what I see from Wisconsin. 😂😂🫶🏻

He said that he would make billionaires pay more. And since the majority of the party are addicted to corpo cash, they couldn't have that.

Perhaps @thegodpodcast.com could weigh in on the theory of “you can’t take it with you” And so I ask - one of the mysterious questions of this Planet 🌎 How much money is enough ⁉️FFS

Their metric is: how much can I get, not how much do I need.

Pluralism

I’m think is economic policies are hocus pocus. Also, I think they are repellent electorally outside of very liberal enclaves. So there’s that! He’s better than Cuomo or any MAGA Republican, but that ain’t saying much!

Palestinians are humans?

Probably nothing that you would disagree with. But "Christians" be they Democrats or Republicans seem to think that Israeli Zionists are the new messiah and Mamdani doesn't agree.

The Democratic Party Circular Firing Squad is alive and well.

Baffles me what Ds do to their own. No D-leaning person wants anything close to maga'a embracing, promoting the corrupt& traitorous but Ds throw their own under the bus for not being what? IDK .Sen AFranken &unproven allegations comes to mind&vote to censure Rep Greene- -"abstain" not an option? Smh

It's because so many of our politicians get their paychecks from Israel. Democrats and Republicans. Very sad to see how AIPAC and others can just pay to make our Democrats anti-muslim. Meanwhile we are subsidizing genocide.

Dear God, The Democrats are not a monolithic group. Some support Mamdani, some don't; and those who don't do so for a variety of reasons. Life isn't simple. You should know that.

Well, obviously you don’t know ANYTHING about our philosophy. It is our job and sacred duty to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. That is who we are.😉

They disagree with him not being a cowardly white centrist.

Broken America

It is strange because almost half of the voters voted for him in the primary, and NOW the Democrats are complaining. I think it's the losers that are complaining.

The ones who spent to much money on the guy who lost

It is sad to say, even today we have sore losers on our side. We need to do better people! If we are going to stand a chance against these MAGAts, even if the Democrat you were backing lost the primary, you HAVE GOT TO BACK THE WINNER IN THE MAIN! OUR NUMBER ONE GOAL IS KICKING MAGAts OUT!

He's going to tax the millionaires. That's all they needed to hear.

Helping the unmoneyed class.