The only thing that can stop a primary candidate with a platform like Mamdani, is depressed Dem primary turnout…
The DNC chair didn’t endorse him in the primary, because this chair will never even glance at the scales during any primary.
But literal days after Mamdani became the candidate, he gave a PBS interview talking about how if Dems want to win, we need to run candidates like Mamdani.
We’ll get a fair primary with nothing holding us back, and voting in the Dem primary comes with zero obligations in the general. There is absolutely zero reason to stop voting in Dem primaries now. It’s more important than it’s ever been, because it’ll be the first fair one in at least 30 years.
But all the stuff Mamdani is doing in NYC today, can be done nationwide in just a couple years if we don’t give up right before the finish line of a marathon
By the same token, now is the time to promote this message of hope and action wherever you see it, and swiftly remediate every expression of doom and defeat, however harmless it may seem. We all share responsibility for morale to the extent that it anticipates collective action.
Now is not the time to give up and stay home, yet there are many around here currently in a state of deep hopelessness they feel compelled to spread. These people are effectively deactivated and would deactivate others if only as a comfort to themselves, to validate their misery and justify their inaction. They don’t realize, or simply aren’t considering, how contagious that behavior can be.
The only thing that can stop a primary candidate with a platform like Mamdani, is depressed Dem primary turnout…
The DNC chair didn’t endorse him in the primary, because this chair will never even glance at the scales during any primary.
But literal days after Mamdani became the candidate, he gave a PBS interview talking about how if Dems want to win, we need to run candidates like Mamdani.
We’ll get a fair primary with nothing holding us back, and voting in the Dem primary comes with zero obligations in the general. There is absolutely zero reason to stop voting in Dem primaries now. It’s more important than it’s ever been, because it’ll be the first fair one in at least 30 years.
But all the stuff Mamdani is doing in NYC today, can be done nationwide in just a couple years if we don’t give up right before the finish line of a marathon
By the same token, now is the time to promote this message of hope and action wherever you see it, and swiftly remediate every expression of doom and defeat, however harmless it may seem. We all share responsibility for morale to the extent that it anticipates collective action.
Now is not the time to give up and stay home, yet there are many around here currently in a state of deep hopelessness they feel compelled to spread. These people are effectively deactivated and would deactivate others if only as a comfort to themselves, to validate their misery and justify their inaction. They don’t realize, or simply aren’t considering, how contagious that behavior can be.