Major leaders in the Democratic party – including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and NY Governor Kathy Hochul – have still refused to endorse Democratic nominee for New York Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, despite him winning the primary fair and square.
In this ‘Mehdi Unfiltered’ interview, Mehdi presses Doug Jones, a former Democratic senator from Alabama, on the matter. Jones admits, “If you were a Democratic leader, it’s hard to not endorse a Democratic nominee.”
“The mayor of New York’s got a whole bunch of folks that he’s got to deal with in order to get New York where he wants it to be,” Jones explains. “And that’s going to take some ability to compromise. If he [Mamdani] does that, he can be successful. So let’s give him the benefit of the doubt.”
Fuck compromise. That’s not what the people want.
The party of “no matter who and no matter what they do” now wants the left and ONLY the left to “compromise” with them.
We’ve seen what they call “compromise” from when they “compromise” with republicans. They want capitulation and nothing else.
Do you work with other people?
It involves compromise, doesn’t it. Why would more people make that different?
If you don’t compromise you have to overcome with sheer numbers. Do you think “the people” are going to rise up and do what it takes to not compromise? I’d like to think so, but I also know that’s not going to happen.
So yes, compromise is going to be part of it. That’s how the world works. There have been a LOT of people who have tested that theory, and it always goes one way. Either compromise or make up the difference with big numbers.