Establishment Democrats looking to recover from 2024’s losses fear Mamdani could hurt the party’s brand nationally

don’t they know only going right is the only acceptable solution!

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    21 hours ago

    Which frankly he learned from Obama. Unfortunately the Democrats failed to iterate.

    To the day I still don’t understand how waltz wasn’t just bouncing from white male podcast to white male podcast lecturing them about how to fix their trucks and how being a man means taking care of your community, using examples like MN’s school lunch program. They had a pocket ace right there, A boomer who could flip the script on masculinity And link it with progressive ideals. But they basically just hid him away until the election. Ridiculous.

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      The answer is simple: They don’t want people to take care of their communities; to them that tax money should be going to billionaires and corporations (and, by extension, themselves). The actions of the DNC make a lot more sense if you assume they don’t stand for any of the things they claim to stand for.

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        20 hours ago

        I get it very easy to boil it down to that, but I don’t think it’s quite that simple. For instance, why do they pick them in the first place? The entire rhetoric around him, including in the news media, was about his relatability to progressives and young men alike. Everyone seemed to be on the same page. Then Harris‘s election strategy became basically to go silent

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          18 hours ago

          Same reason they picked Harris: they’re drinking their own kool-aid on identity politics. Just like how because Harris is a black woman they tried to sell her as a progressive feminist and not the bootlicking prosecutor she actually is, they assumed that because Walz was an old white guy he was only pretending to use progressive rhetoric and shat their pants when they realized he was genuine about it.

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            19 hours ago

            Right!? It’s truly a mystery to me. I guess they really just thought Trump would hang himself in the end but clearly they were wrong