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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I get it very easy to boil it down to that, but I don’t think it’s quite that simple. For instance, why do they pick them in the first place? The entire rhetoric around him, including in the news media, was about his relatability to progressives and young men alike. Everyone seemed to be on the same page. Then Harris‘s election strategy became basically to go silent

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That... is a fair point. In that case I have no idea.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Right!? It’s truly a mystery to me. I guess they really just thought Trump would hang himself in the end but clearly they were wrong