• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    If he was that popular and progressives that numerous he wouldn’t have lost his primary

    Propaganda works. You can bombard people with media attacks on a progressive politician to trick people into thinking he’s reactionary. In this case, a heavily Jewish district was flooded with “Jamaal Bowman is antisemetic” messaging for months straight and it cost him the election.

    This has nothing to do with his popularity or his progressive bonafides and everything to do with his cash on hand to run counter-programming.

    • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Again, he was down a ton before the AIPAC money came in.

      That PAC bullshit is just that but it doesn’t explain his loss.