One more reason the establishment democratic leadership is allied with the right in trying to do everything imaginable to sabotage or at least marginalize and dismiss Mamdani’s mandate and popularity.
The more he stands up for what people actually want, and stands up for marginalized or “controversial” groups and ideas, the more glaring it becomes how they won’t.
Unfortunately, the average liberal, middle-class American is largely ambivalent on things like trans-rights still, BUT that doesn’t mean they don’t care. A lot of people DO want to see people protected broadly. This can influence elections, this can become a tipping point for “regime change” in the Democratic party.
The current Dem leadership loves the fact that liberal america is ambivalent about trans rights and will work actively to keep it that way, because it means they don’t have to take a stance on it, they don’t have to actually care, and this lets them court the neo-libs and conservatives as the Overton Window is bought and sold on the market to whoever has the deepest pockets.
One more reason the establishment democratic leadership is allied with the right in trying to do everything imaginable to sabotage or at least marginalize and dismiss Mamdani’s mandate and popularity.
The more he stands up for what people actually want, and stands up for marginalized or “controversial” groups and ideas, the more glaring it becomes how they won’t.
Unfortunately, the average liberal, middle-class American is largely ambivalent on things like trans-rights still, BUT that doesn’t mean they don’t care. A lot of people DO want to see people protected broadly. This can influence elections, this can become a tipping point for “regime change” in the Democratic party.
The current Dem leadership loves the fact that liberal america is ambivalent about trans rights and will work actively to keep it that way, because it means they don’t have to take a stance on it, they don’t have to actually care, and this lets them court the neo-libs and conservatives as the Overton Window is bought and sold on the market to whoever has the deepest pockets.