The new power broker: How Zohran Mamdani muscled NYC’s Democratic establishment | CNN Politics
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New York politics and the Democratic Party have a new power broker after Zohran Mamdani’s picks swept three US House primaries. Hakeem Jeffries, the Brooklyn-based House Democratic leader, is losing two incumbent members and facing an ascendant band of agitators. And the people long in charge in Democratic politics, including the ones who for decades thought of themselves as the insurgents, aren’t happy about it.

Outside Rep. Adriano Espaillat’s primary night party, four men on the sidewalk were dressed in full neon sequins, trying to get the party started. Inside, the bar had barely opened.

Espaillat spent 20 years trying to get to Washington and another 10 years in Congress. He arrived to give his concession speech and left in under 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, the real party was going on about three miles away. That’s where Zohran Mamdani was completing his victory lap of three celebrations with candidates who likely would not have gotten near Congress without his endorsements, just a year after he stunned the political world by beating Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary.

  • givesomefucksEnglish
    87·
    8 days ago

    Oligarchs want it to seem like Mamdani is doing all this, and not that voters have always wanted candidates like this.

    • gAlienLifeform
      15·
      8 days ago

      Yeah, organizing a bunch of people and getting them all behind the same candidates to disrupt a well entrenched political machine is an accomplishment, but I think the real story here is that that bunch of people that are still furious with Jeffries’ and AIPAC’s genocidal bullshit and all the terrible effects they’ve had on our politics, and Mamdani is just in the right place at the right time to seize on that anger and make it productive

      • givesomefucksEnglish
        14·
        8 days ago

        No.

        Mamdani is not special, the vast majority of people are closer to him than any neoliberal.

        He ran a great campaign and is doing an amazing job. But voters choose to vote for him, and if they choose to vote for people similar to Mamdani, it’s not because Mamdani told them to.

        It’s because this is the type of policy/candidate that people want.

        It’s bigger than Mamdani and it’s bigger than NYC and the entire state.

      • givesomefucksEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        Isn’t Mamdani also rich?

        Who told you that?

        Did someone tell you he’s a leprechaun too?

        Do I need to provide sources that he doesn’t shit gold?

        • forkDestroyer@infosec.pubEnglish
          21·
          7 days ago

          Who told you that?

          I read that his mother was a well received director, and assumed he came from a rich family. Is his family not wealthy?

          Did someone tell you he’s a leprechaun too?

          No.

          Do I need to provide sources that he doesn’t shit gold?

          No.

          • givesomefucksEnglish
            2·
            7 days ago

            If you stopped moving goalposts, you could have easily googled it by now buddy…

            Or are you “just asking questions”?

            I thought all the rightwingers had given that up

            • forkDestroyer@infosec.pubEnglish
              1·
              7 days ago

              If you stopped moving goalposts, you could have easily googled it by now buddy…

              You’re right: I went from referring to him as directly being wealthy, and then talked about his family (or at least his mom) being wealthy. I’m conflating the two.

              Or are you “just asking questions”?

              Are we no longer allowed to do that on forums? Would you prefer I speak to machines only? What’s an Internet without the ability to converse like this?

              I thought all the rightwingers had given that up

              I’m not a right winger, but is me talking like this/asking these questions upsetting you enough that you don’t think I support him and that I must be right wing?