This seems to be Mamdani’s party now
Far-left surge: Mamdani-backed candidates oust Dem establishment incumbents
New York City’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani did it again.
One year after sending political shock waves across the country with his New York City Democratic primary victory on his way to winning election as mayor of the nation’s most populous city, Mamdani tested the limits of his political powers.
And he easily passed the test, upending the Democratic Party establishment as a trio of Mamdani-endorsed far-left congressional candidates won their primaries over more moderate incumbents and rivals.
Let’s be clear, they are not left wing, they are far to the right in the Authoritarian model. A few in the Theocracy model
The mayor’s most shocking victory came in New York’s 13th Congressional District, where Mamdani-backed candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old community organizer and democratic socialist, narrowly topped incumbent Democrat Adriano Espaillat, the 71-year-old Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair and the first Dominican American elected to the U.S. House.
Chevalier’s reported, past and now deleted, social media jabs at former Presidents Barack Obama, whom she called “evil,” and Joe Biden, whom she labeled a “war criminal,” along with her previous support to abolish the police and get rid of prisons, grabbed plenty of attention in recent weeks.
She also wants to abolish ICE and open the borders
In the race to succeed retiring Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez, Mamdani-endorsed state Assembly Member Claire Valdez, who is also aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America, defeated Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso by double digits. Reynoso, who was supported by Velazquez, was downed by more than 20 points.
She’s all in on grooming children, letting them all be fully gender confused, hating on Israel and Jews, abolishing ICE, open borders, hating cops, taking Other People’s money and property.
And a third Mamdani-backed congressional candidate, progressive Brad Lander, crushed incumbent Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman. Lander, the former New York City comptroller, ran against Mamdani last year in the crowded Democratic primary field but became one of his biggest backers in the general election.
Full on Israel and Jew hater, abolish ICE, open borders, all the stuff Mamdani is about
Is it? It’s just 4 wins by wacko Socialists in Democrat New York. But, this is the way the Democrat have been going since the start of this century. It’s how they end up with Islamists like Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, wackos like AOC, and just more and more who would have been fringe nutters chattering on the Internet at places like Think Progress and the Daily Kos.
Oh, and there’s a 4th wacko who won
This is what our politicians are letting in.
So much winning!
Teach is visibly shaken. His world is crumbling before his eyes.
The Fascist Teach should be over the moon if the candidates are far-right!!
Americans seem to like some of what Democratic Socialists bring to the mix, don’t they?
Dictaor Donny Dementia has made the choice clear. Upward redistribution of resources to the Political Donor Class BILLIONAIRES or support the American 300 MILLION non-BILLIONAIRES.
It’s time to eliminate the PACs and SuperPACs, reverse the Citizens United ruling that handed OUR government to the super-wealthy, and to transfer at some electoral power back to the citizenry.
The working class of the United States is suffering and on an existential downward spiral. For nearly the last 50 years the Repubicunt Party has blamed the working class for their situation, all while transferring the costs of our nation to them. Education cuts, tax cuts directed to the wealthy with increasd (and regressive) state and local taxes, massive debt, foreign entanglements, for (big) profit healthcare… Every policy: taxes, labor, trade, pensions, insurance, healthcare, environment, bankruptcy, capital vs wages, corporate regs, crime and punishment etc ends up rewarding the wealthy at the expense of the working class.
Even right-wing Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman recognized the hazards of widening economic inequality, recommending replacing the patchwork of government support programs with a “negative income tax” or minimum income.
The Rethugs have long hated the working class and loved the leisure class.