Of all the democratic socialists who piled into a Manhattan church on Wednesday evening, none had the cachet of the man handed a microphone toward the meeting’s close.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani offered some pleasantries — “Hello friends, Zohran, he/him, Queens D.S.A.” — before launching into his mission: torpedoing the candidacy of a left-leaning ally, Councilman Chi Ossé, who is attempting to unseat Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the top House Democrat.
The remarkable scene was both a reflection of the tricky political calculuses Mr. Mamdani confronts as he prepares to take office next year and the egalitarian nature of a group that served as the grass-roots organizing machine of his political success.
yup. i know usians are not used to demsoc types but well, he’s a demsoc type. of course he thinks he can negotiate and compromise his way into socialism. or he knows, no practical difference. i heard somewhere that he is the new aoc and that’s truth.
by all means vote for people like him if you can, but the real progress is made in the streets by the masses. don’t get swindled by people who tell you they can change the system from the inside without any real resistance or the masses involved.