https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/nyregion/mamdani-police-apology-floyd.html
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, said on Thursday that he intended to apologize for comments he made in 2020 calling the New York Police Department “racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety.”
He said that the remarks, which he wrote in June 2020 in a social media post in support of the defund the police movement, were made after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis a month earlier.
The comments were made “at the height of frustration,” he said in an interview with The New York Times, and were not reflective of his current campaign or “my view of public safety and the fact that police will be critical partners in delivering public safety.”
If the left flank will throw him out for saying "I'm sorry I called the police racist" then no wonder the Dems keep trying to win the center.
If even an inch of pragmatism is a step too far then even I would give up.
But it's only "pragmatic" because there are non-leftist voters who might throw him out for saying "cops are racist".
No, it's pragmatic because frankly the police (even as corrupt and racist as they are) are necessary and making an enemy of them will undermine anything else he'd try to achieve.
lol ok
The dems always capitulate to "the center" because they are ideologically and financially committed to capital and do not want, under any circumstances, any variety of socialist in their party. It isn't some strategy for chasing maximum votes. They would rather lose to the right than win to the left because of the class they represent.
The working class is surprisingly pro-police, without the police things go to hell. The police are a "public service" (even if in name only) and poorer people aren't keen on that service being taken away.
I can't be bothered going in-depth on this issue, because it doesn't seem productive.