Good for Zohran. Hope he wins.
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If he wins, I wonder how soon will some crazed redcap attempt assassination.
I hope they fail so badly that they kill themselves as a result.
On the one hand I'm farther to his left and am critical of some of his campaign decisions, and am not optimistic about his abilities to overcome the capitalists through purely electoral means.
On the other hand I'd be happy to see him prove me wrong.
Who says he has to do it through purely electoral means? Why would you even assume that's the plan? He's a politician. The electoral part is where he fits in. That doesn't mean he expects the rest of us to sit back and watch once he gets elected It's never this approach or that, it's everything.
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Mamdani's campaign isn't intended to establish socialism in New York through purely electoral means, that's impossible and no one serious is actually pushing for that. His campaign is part of the DSA's party surrogate strategy. It's a shift away from the realignment strategy they had been attempting before, and IMO is a move in the right direction, but I still think they have further to go. As far as I can tell they haven't decided on a plan for a "dirty break" from the DNC when the time comes, and seeing the party surrogate strategy find success might lead some in the DSA to warm back up to the realignment strategy, which I don't think has a chance in hell of working (though I would love to be proven wrong).
Edit: I'll add that the DNC seem particularly afraid of the party surrogate strategy, and that gives me hope that it can actually work.
I think he's going to run into a brick wall with the city council and police union and organized business leadership when he tries to do any of the things he promised. They'd happily destroy New York if it meant kneecapping the DSA from making any progress.
New Yorkers are pretty savvy, I don't know if they'd be happy about that
And then what?
Unless he taps into that anger and uses it to overthrow the political interests aligned against him, he won't be able to do anything. They'll just be mad and march around, but no real change will occur.
There is a whole lot of money in influence centered in NYC. I think there is a reason why ICE hasn't gone all out there yet.
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I'm well beyond my youth and I've been following his campaign since early this year despite living very far away.
I like the guy and he deserves to be a national leader but I hope Dems don't push to alter the Constitution so he can run. Bad enough we have Krasnov in the Whitehouse, we don't need someone like Musk to run.
Musk can’t run he was born in South Africa. He’s an Apartheid Nazi
That's what the person was saying. Mamdani can't run either since he wasn't born in the US. They don't want Dems to try to change the constitution because they think that means president Musk
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