Mayor says progressive peers who swept primaries speak to Americans ‘coast to coast’ as moderates have reservations

Mayor says progressive peers who swept primaries speak to Americans ‘coast to coast’ as moderates have reservations

Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor, said on Sunday that he and a slew of democratic socialist allies who prevailed in recent primary elections are carrying a “national message” to struggling working Americans hungry for a new kind of politics “coast to coast”.

Mamdani made that triumphant clarion call on ABC News’s This Week just five days after he had seen his endorsed candidates win Democratic nominations in three races for New York congressional seats, as well as for five state legislature positions in Albany. He made no effort to disguise his delight that his clean sweep marks a dramatic shift in Democratic politics – not just in New York City, which he has led since January, but also across the US.

He said that collectively they were carrying a “New Deal understanding” of Democratic politics to Congress and on to the “national stage”. It spoke, he said, to Americans feeling exhaustion at struggling to make ends meet “every single day”.

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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      6 days ago

      In a utopia, sure. This isn’t that. This is people voting for things they don’t understand because someone told them to.

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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        6 days ago

        That is so bass ackwards it’s not even funny.

        If it were a utopia, why would people vote against the status quo? That wouldn’t make any sense. It’s already a utopia, why would you want to change that?

        As things are now, the status quo is failing millions of people nationwide. People are hungry for change. Why would they not vote for something different?

        And you’re assuming they don’t understand democratic socialism. Maybe they do, and that’s why they chose to vote for it.

        It seems like you don’t understand it and you’re just projecting.