First at Politico
Democrats are scrambling to figure out what Mamdani’s win means for the party
Seven years later, Democrats still don’t have a playbook for when a socialist from New York pulls off an upset against an establishment politician.
Zohran Mamdani’s all-but-certain victory in Tuesday’s New York City mayoral primary sent shockwaves through the party, leaving national Democrats to grapple with the implications of the charismatic 33-year-old firebrand’s win over the better-funded, establishment-backed and scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo, who resigned as governor amid sexual harassment allegations. Progressives see a roadmap for Democrats to take back power, while moderates worry that New York City voters have just handed President Donald Trump a cudgel to beat them with during the 2026 midterm elections.
Maybe they should be concerned with the high end wackadoodleness of these people, and how it drives their moderates away. And that the Dems have no actual policy platform other than Orange Man Bad. Because Trump is out of office on January 20, 2029. But, also Politico
‘Democratic Leadership Is Way Out of Touch’: Bernie Sanders on Zohran Mamdani’s Victory
Without Bernie Sanders, there might not be a Zohran Mamdani.
The 33-year-old democratic socialist who triggered a political earthquake by moving toward a decisive win in New York’s Democratic mayoral primary race has called Sanders “the single most influential political figure in my life.”
Sanders returned the favor with an endorsement of the underdog in the runup to the election, and on Wednesday, the Vermont senator and longtime fellow democratic socialist reveled in Mamdani’s victory.
“Take on the billionaire class, take on oligarchy. That’s how you win elections,” he said in a wide-ranging interview with POLITICO Magazine.
Sanders said the Democratic Party that he has long allied with but never joined should take serious lessons from Mamdani’s victory — but he was skeptical it would. He also weighed in on whether incumbent Democrats should be worried about a Tea Party of the left, Larry Summers’ concerns about Mamdani and what the young socialist can learn from Sanders’ own experience decades ago as mayor.
Politico then has a long interview with Comrade Bernie. Regardless, in case Bernie hasn’t noticed, several of the Squad members have already lost. And many are tired of the hardcore wacko in their politicians. But, this is NYC, and Mamdani ran against freaking Andrew Cuomo. Bernie doesn’t seem to realize just what he is backing. But, please, yeah, drive the people who fund NYC out. Please, drive the non-hard left wackos away from voting Democrat. They might not vote Republican, but, they’ll just stay away from the polls. And what will you do as you rail against the oligarchy as NYC dies and becomes a hotbed of Jew hatred full of Islamists? Well, you have your three houses to hang in.
By the way, if you drive out the “oligarchs”, meaning rich folks, who funds the Democrat party?
From Comrade Sanders,“Take on the billionaire class, take on oligarchy. That’s how you win elections,”.
It will be hilarious when they vote with their feet and leave NYC with their finger in the air. Since business can now be conducted from almost anywhere, living in places like NYC are more for show.
Has anyone started the over/under line as to when NYC will be broke and begging for State and Federal bailouts if this clown is elected?
Communist oligarch who got rich taking payoffs from capitalists, in capitalist country roots for taking on oligarchs and capitalists. Of course, he has never once in his life given to anyone “according to their needs”, despite having massive “means”. Communism for thee, but not for me.
Senator Sanders, 83, is Jewish and has an official net worth of 0.5 to $1 million, although other sources put it at around $3 million. He has a home in DC, one in Vermont and a summer camp on Lake Champlain. He collects a Senator’s salary, has written two well-selling books and gets paid for speaking engagements.
In November 2016, Sanders’s book Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In was released; upon its release, it was number three on The New York Times Best Seller list
Sanders was elected to Congress as an Independent in 1990. He was a VT Rep from 1991 to 2007, when he was elected Senator as an Independent.
Senator Sanders is not a Communist. Despot J. Trump is more a communist than is Sanders. It is Trump sending people to prisons around the world; personally collecting payments (bribes) from foreign sources; squelching free speech by threatening Americans who criticize his acts; haranguing the free press; living a high-life on taxpayer money; turning the military into a personal force; collaborating with Trump oligarchs (Bezos, Musk, Zuckkerberg, Mellon, Arnault, Cook, Altman, Bessent, Kochs, Fertitta, McMahon, C Kushner, Lutnick, Witkoff, Burgum, Loeffler, Stephens, Feinberg…). On the non-Trump side are the likes of Gates, Soros, Bloomberg…
Do you have any evidence that Senator Sanders took payoffs or are you just becoming increasingly desperate in your lies?
Bernie hosts a Russian legislator at his very nice, upscale home on a lake. The Russian is impressed and asks him how he affords this on a legislator’s salary. Bernie points and says “See that $50 million bridge?” The Russian nods. “I got $55 million allocated to it, and through various means, I funneled $5 million of that to my own pocket in the process.” The Russian looked very impressed.
Later, Bernie visits the Russian, and was amazed when he saw that the Russian had an entire mansion. He asks him how he afforded it. The Russian points and says, “See that $50 million bridge?”
“No” says Bernie.
“Exactly” says the Russian.