Establishment Democrats looking to recover from 2024’s losses fear Mamdani could hurt the party’s brand nationally

don’t they know only going right is the only acceptable solution!

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    Reality check: Many Democratic Party leaders had believed Mamdani’s past comments would be disqualifying to most primary voters. They were wrong.

    They will continue being wrong for the foreseeable future as well, because they don’t understand how to motivate a user base.

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      They don’t want to motivate a voter base. They want to continue collecting giant checks from corporate donors and the 1%.

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        who are also donors of the gop, and the dnc survival hinges on leeches off the coattails indirectly of gop’s messaging and propaganda(when gop messes things up, suddenly the dnc are electable again, and it cycles through gops culture war propaganda and than back to DNC again forever), and gifts that people like putin and meganors give them. thats why dnc rarely push for significant medicaid/care for all, or voter reform, election rigging investigation until its too late, this way if they can use it as a voting issue, and plus Education would hurt both parties in general, moreso for republican in a way it would generate less cannon fodder for the MIC if everyone has a degree and a career of that degree.

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            The answer is simple: They don’t want people to take care of their communities; to them that tax money should be going to billionaires and corporations (and, by extension, themselves). The actions of the DNC make a lot more sense if you assume they don’t stand for any of the things they claim to stand for.

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                Same reason they picked Harris: they’re drinking their own kool-aid on identity politics. Just like how because Harris is a black woman they tried to sell her as a progressive feminist and not the bootlicking prosecutor she actually is, they assumed that because Walz was an old white guy he was only pretending to use progressive rhetoric and shat their pants when they realized he was genuine about it.