Bill Clinton’s last-minute endorsement of Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s mayoral race is all too fitting: both men represent the corporate Democratic establishment, opposed by socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani, that has abandoned the working class.
The entire Dem leadership cadre needs to start stepping aside. They have failed to recognize how things have changed, and are well prepared to fight the GOP of the 1990s. Shit has changed, idiots, and you need to hand the reins over to folks like AOC and Hogg. Stop sidelining them, start paying attention to the canary in your goddamned coalmine.
No! It worked in the 90s! It’ll work again any day now!!
Also, we make too much money, so no.
So things work exactly like they want them to. They get money, the oligarchy gets their interests represented, the middle class gets destroyed, people overseas get bombed and minorities get discriminated. Everything is perfectly like it should be for these people.
Why can’t the Clintons just go away?
The Clintons are largely responsible for the democratic party’s tolerance and enabling of fascism. They are responsible for popularizing thirdway politics in the US, and making compromise the Democrats only real priority.
Of course they are going to endorse the center right, that is the party platform that they’ve been building since the 90s. I honestly do not know why the conservatives demonized Hillary so much, the Clinton’s basically built their empire compromise by compromise.
I honestly do not know why the conservatives demonized Hillary so much
Easy way to move the Overton window.
Because she was a talkative woman with ideas and a dem instead of being in their GOP
Because she
You can stop there.
This is the best possible PR that Mamdani could’ve hoped for
The establishment politicians of the Democratic party are why they are polling at historic lows, but I’m also concerned that too much has been placed on Mamdani’s shoulders in regards to the future of the party. Its one race, in a state with a Democratic party that is very different than Democratic parties in the rest of the country, with a voting system that while better, is more subject to uncertainty than we’re used to. A lot of fuckery can happen between now and then.
Mamdani isn’t a super hero and a lot can happen between here and there. Its a good thing that he’s doing well, but its not clear whatsoever that there is a political path towards defeating fascism in the US, even if Mamdani pulls this out. If they do, its a largely aesthetic win; its not like a senate seat or the house is in play from this.
We need to fully digest the fact that politics have failed us and recognize that we may need to move on with regards to the fight against fascism. Ideally, there is both a political path to fighting fascism and a boots on the ground path, but I’m concerned about over investing in political paths which have repeatedly demonstrated themselves to be a waste of resources, effort, and mind share.
I think his campaign succeeding would more be a way to show his kind of message and campaign tactics are actually viable both in general and against establishment Dems as opposed to it somehow making a big difference in the country. If he succeeds he’s laying the track for others to follow.
Put it in the pile?
We’ve got a massive stack of evidence showing that progressive policies and candidates are popular and win elections; that centrists and moderates lose elections; and that the main reason why Democrats fail to perform is when they try to get RW’ing voters instead of activating their base, trying to get LW’ing voters. We’ve got like 2.5 decades of consistent data showing this. The two problems we have are 1) we have a media and Democratic consultant class for whom maintaining control of the party is a higher priority than maintaining control of government as a party, and that 2) these people and the voters have very different interests that don’t align and are basically exclusive to one another.
The biggest opposition to Democrats winning elections isn’t Republicans, it’s Democrats who are wrong about where the country is at, who are wrong about how elections work, and who can’t be removed from any office because at its core, the Democratic Party is a fundamentally undemocratic institution (like, we’ve had supreme court rulings on the matter).
So stack it up. The evidence is clear that Democratic socialist policies win Democrats elections. But with apologists always willing to come out and make apologies for business as usual, well never be able to to break the blood brain barrier within the DNC.
Is this solidarity with capitalists or solidarity with sex criminals? 40/60?
Neolibs simply can’t resist an opportunity to fuck shut up just one more time.
And are sexual predators that are a danger to greater society
I guess in this case we just have to hope that this endorsement works the same way it did for Kamala.
Birds of a feather and all.
America has class.
“And I will add, I did NOT have any sexual relations with that man, Andrew Cuomo” - Clinton, probably.
Bill who? Didn’t think he was relevant anymore.
