Please please please let this one good thing happen.
This won’t affect me directly, but I’ve been pulling for Mamdani anyway. I know that basically amounts to “thoughts and prayers”, but still.
If New Yorkers manage to elect a Mayor that’s not a bootlicker it’s a sign that everything has a chance to get better.
Cuomo conceded. Mamdani won!!
This is a wake up call to the DNC
If they ignore it, the progressives are starting to get ready to take it in the primaries themselves. There’s been an increase in young progressives running for state & local office following these results
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Not a presidential election. Or a senate election. Or even a house election.
A mayoral election.
And this should scare the DNC?
Baloney.
They poured millions and million and massively outspent Zohran and still lost. Zohran had no name recognition, and was virtually a nobody in February. The establishment worked hard against him and still lost. They rolled out shameless endorsement of Cuomo after shameless endorsement (like Bill Clinton, apparently). The establishment didn’t lose for a lack of effort. This could happen anywhere next
Oh goody, one good thing could happen anywhere while a million bad things could happen a million times in a million places.
You’re not gonna trick me into having hope over one dumb mayoral election. We’re too fucked for that to make a difference.
Mayor of the biggest city in the nation is pretty damn important. Higher population than half the states in the nation. Most governors are small potatoes in comparison.
Oh you mean like Rudy Giuliani? Mayor of the biggest city? The Mayor of America?
Unless we’re going to back to polities like the ancient Greeks NYC thinks too highly of itself.
Please let this be the snowball that causes an avalanche of change in our country.
Democrats the people of this nation are screaming at you. Listen.
