Zohran Mamdani has won the race for New York City mayor, according to Decision Desk HQ, ushering in a new era of progressive politics in the city and reigniting the debate over the Democratic Party’s future.
Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, is poised to become the first millennial and first Muslim to lead New York City, after a campaign that pulled off one of the most stunning political upsets in recent memory. He defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who mounted a long-shot independent bid after losing to Mamdani in the Democratic primary, and Republican Curtis Sliwa in his bid to succeed Mayor Eric Adams.
Mamdani focused heavily on affordability, pledging to freeze rent, establish city-owned grocery stores and make buses free for riders. He quickly became a progressive icon as well as a polarizing figure within the party over his positions, so much so that it divided prominent New York Democratic leadership over whether to endorse him.
Almost as soon as Mamdani won the primary, the DNC chair did a PBS interview talking about the important part was the platform Mamdani ran on…
And Martin only waited till after the primary, because he legit believes a party shouldn’t be biased. But he ran Minnesota for a decade, and under his watch they went from purple to progressive as fuck.
The only way we lose, is if people pre-emptively give up on the party and don’t vote in the primary. So there’s going to be a lot of noise trying to convince people not to trust the new party
Going to be?
There’s already a shit load of that right here on Lemmy.
We got like 30 months till presidential primaries, and the billionaires are not going to talk about how they lost control of the DNC on the media networks they bought for propaganda…
Ignorance is the natural state, everyone is ignorant of everything until they learn it.
But it’s not gonna be a valid excuse for much longer.
But regardless of people’s opinion of the DNC, Martin is going to keep throwing money back at state parties, which is going to keep translating to wins downballot. And he’s not gonna stop a progressive from getting the presidential nomination.
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There’s no “new party”. Democrats won in Virginia by being centrist. Not every part of the country is exactly the same.
Almost like not every part of the party is exactly the same?
The “new” part is being nonbiased instead of ridiculously biased.
If you’re confused and something sounds like it doesn’t make sense, ask questions instead of making assumptions
That supports my point, it doesn’t dispute it.
What the fuck does that mean? Non-biased, is that a joke? People, trying to divide the party to help Republicans win, are obviously biased. I on the other hand accept both wins in NYC and Virginia while you accept only NYC.
I didn’t express confusion or uncertainty. This is a pathetic argument tactic that intentionally avoids the topic at hand.
Stop trying to divide the party. That’s how you uncompromising ideologues gave us a second Trump presidency.
I think the problem is you don’t understand what the DNC is…
If you chill out and try to have a civil conversation, I can help
But they won. Because the alternative was a literal maga crazy person who doesn’t think prejudice against LGBT people is discriminatory.
Now, you can be unhappy that it wasn’t some mystical ultra progressive (that wasn’t even running in the race)… or you can be happy that at least the needle didn’t shift even further right. Now that’s not to say “Vote Blue NMW”, but it will be easier to field progressives in the future from Spanberger’s position, than from Winsome’s. And maybe next time, the magical lefty messiah Lisan al Gaib will be running and the choice will be between them vs the centrist democrat, instead of a centrist democrat vs a literal smoothbrained maga dummy.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I certainly didn’t dispute that. Both won by running races that best appealed the majority of voters in their electoral areas. People here are somehow mad that we got the governorship of Virginia? The confirmation bias is ridiculous.
Yeah, welcome to much of America that isn’t NYC, a major urban metropolis. And Mamdani still had decent opposition from a sex offender. Gonna ignore that? If you try, you could downplay his victory as much as hers but why would you? They’re both wins. Winning shouldn’t divide us. Also, it’s bit easier for a Democrat to win the mayoralty of NYC than it is the governorship of purple Virginia.
I’m happy in either case. All I care about is a pragmatic approach that moves society in the way I most agree with. Allowing Donald Trump to come to power doesn’t qualify.