electoralism

Also didn't a decent number of richer ppl vote for him?

Its nice to see leftists (whatever you think of Mamdani's politics, I think its safe to say he is left of the democrats) be able to take advantage of the democrats' inability to put up good candidates or promote good policies. It was tiring seeing the republicans being the only ones beating them when they made it so easy for anyone to

It’s funny how much his strategy actually seemed to do the thing Democrats always claim they wanna do and listened to people who were on the fence about why they’d swapped over to Trump. God forbid

AOC was elected 2 years into trump 1, by beating out a grotesque, establishment dem in a safe seat by sniping them in their primary with a sudden, highly effective and populist ground game.

while the correct ideological take is to doubt her commitment to sparkle motion and the NYC mayor primary is different from a us house of representative dem primary, there's a logic to the pattern:

trump wins, the dark blue safe seat dem leadership goes to sleep, believing the backlash to trump will be something they can easily hop on for a win without having to do anything, forgetting that an energized base might just go with someone who articulates an alternative to milquetoast opposition instead of seeking the endorsement of the usual cast of assholes.

emergency NY landlord meeting ‘oh shit maybe this guy can’t be bought off’

I would say it also boils down to islamophobia

it wasn't laziness, it was ineffectiveness. they did a full media press to smear him and it didn't work

Did they even get lazy? Maybe when it comes to drumming up candidates but didn't they spend some insane amount of money?

They always complain about how the young don’t vote and then mock them when they organize for candidates like Bernie or Zohran

Democracy is when you vote for the guy I tell you to instead of the guy you want to

"We should vote" "no no, not like this"