Zohran Mamdani won the New York City Democratic mayoral primary on June 24 with 56% of the vote in the final runoff, but several prominent Democrats have still not endorsed him. Those withholding support include Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, Sen. Gov.
  • vga@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Perhaps they want to have plausible deniability in the case where he a) doesn’t get elected and b) gets elected and fucks up everything.

    It doesn’t seem to me like anyone is expecting him to get elected and succeed with his policies.

    • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I see the downvotes but will agree that his path is risky and the establishment dems for the most part probably do not have the backbone to support him. His risk of failure is high because it is unusual and the outcome is not known. I think he is great, but establishment politicians are all bought and have no character, so…

      • lilmookieesquire@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        2 days ago

        It’s super risky. Democrats might lose the executive, judicial and legislative and to make matters worse, their specific policy points they are pushing might - just messing.

        The democrats have nothing left to lose but the DNC leadership would rather see Trump in office than risk a social democrat hurting their wealth/power. The party leadership doesn’t mind losing power as long as they keep their power within the party. They would rather see a weaker America where they retain power than do anything to fix it.