Here’s what the DNC chair (the literal Democratic establishment) is actually saying about Mamdani:
Amna Nawaz:
What do you take away from Zohran Mamdani’s New York City mayoral Democratic primary win? Are there lessons there for the party or the races?
Ken Martin:
Well, first, it was a brilliant campaign. And there’s a lot of lessons.
One is, he campaigned for something. And this is a critical piece. We can’t just be in a perpetual state of resisting Donald Trump. Of course, we have to resist Donald Trump. There’s no doubt about it for all the reasons we just talked about. But we also have to give people a sense of what we’re for, what the Democratic Party is fighting for, and what we would do if they put us back in power.
And that’s really critical. And I think that’s one of the lessons from Mamdani’s campaign, is that he focused on affordability. He focused on a message that was resonant with voters, and he campaigned for something, not against other people or against other things. He campaigned on a vision of how he was going to make New York City a better place to live.
I think that’s one of the lessons. The other lessons, of course, is the tactics he used to get his message out, both a very aggressive in-person campaigning, meeting voters where they’re at, and then also in those digital spaces, using very creative messaging to cut through the noise and to get to voters in an inexpensive but authentic way.
There’s a lot to learn from that campaign, and I’m excited to learn more.
Please don’t let billionaires trick you into disengaging from the party now that billionaires aren’t in control of it.
Please don’t let billionaires trick you into disengaging from the party now that billionaires aren’t in control of it.
(Don’t bury the lede)
Motherfucker WON THE PRIMARY, he is the DEMOCRATIC PARTY CANDIDATE. Like fuck off “establishment” democrats the fucking establishment is Fascist
Why support the party when they don’t support their nominee? I mean, I know ultimately why it’s a must, but there must be punishment for the establishment.
The party is supporting him for fucks sake…
Stop treating random shitty neoliberals as “the party” when their wing was just kicked out of the DNC.
The people you want to “punish” were voted out of leadership in the last DNC election, by the voting members of the DNC…
8 months ago I’d be right beside you saying the same thing, but that already happened 6 months ago.
Like, how do so many people pretend to care about this stuff but just don’t have any fucking idea what’s happening?
Edit:
I know I sounded frustrated, but there’s no reason to pile down votes on OP. My frustration is really with MSM media ignoring it.
Because of that, lots of people are unaware of the recent (and seriously historic, this has been 50 years in the making, 80 depending on when you start the clock).
And the wealthy will fight tooth and nail to prevent the people from solidifying their grasp on the Dem party again. Lying and misrepresenting events via the news organization they have all bought up isn’t the worse they’re going to do, if we can’t handle this we won’t be able to handle the real fuckery in the next presidential primary. The DNC will stay fair, so the wealthy will do everything they can to depress Dem primary turnout.
Now more than ever people need to take initiative and pay attention.
When someone isn’t, and they get called out; upvote that shit so others see it.
The party is supporting him for fucks sake…
It’s good to see that Ken Martin isn’t attacking Mamdani, but Schumer and Jefferies are refusing to endorse him. You can’t say the party is supporting Mamdani when its two highest ranking members, both representatives from Mamdani’s city, are withholding their endorsement.
Stop treating random shitty neoliberals as “the party” when their wing was just kicked out of the DNC.
The people you want to “punish” were voted out of leadership in the last DNC election, by the voting members of the DNC…
I’m really struggling to understand why you believe this. The party just kicked Davie Hogg out of leadership for threatening entrenched power, and Ken Martin isn’t exactly fighting the neoliberal wing of the party either. One of the main differences between him and Ben Wikler, his main opponent for DNC chair, is that Martin wanted to continue taking money from, “good billionaires.” Even in the interview you shared, Martin goes out of his way to defend centrist and even conservative Democrats:
You win by bringing people into your coalition. We have conservative Democrats. We have centrist Democrats. We have labor progressives like me, and we have this new brand of Democrat, which is the leftist.
The neoliberal wing of the party is on the back foot right now, but they haven’t been kicked out. Many of them are trying to stage a comeback with Project 2029 and the Abundance Agenda, and plenty voting DNC members will support them. The fight for control of the party isn’t over; it’s barely started.
God forbid they support a candidate who’s actually popular with democratic voters…
