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Reality check: Many Democratic Party leaders had believed Mamdani's past comments would be disqualifying to most primary voters. They were wrong.
They will continue being wrong for the foreseeable future as well, because they don't understand how to motivate a user base.
They don't want to motivate a voter base. They want to continue collecting giant checks from corporate donors and the 1%.
who are also donors of the gop, and the dnc survival hinges on leeches off the coattails indirectly of gop's messaging and propaganda(when gop messes things up, suddenly the dnc are electable again, and it cycles through gops culture war propaganda and than back to DNC again forever), and gifts that people like putin and meganors give them. thats why dnc rarely push for significant medicaid/care for all, or voter reform, election rigging investigation until its too late, this way if they can use it as a voting issue, and plus Education would hurt both parties in general, moreso for republican in a way it would generate less cannon fodder for the MIC if everyone has a degree and a career of that degree.
The democrats are a business, not a political party
Other Democrats see Mamdani — a state Assembly member with a history of controversial comments about Israel and policing — as politically toxic for a party whose national success depends on its ability to attract votes in less progressive places nationwide.
So, to the DNC, it's better to see the winning Democratic candidate defeated in the general now because that will ensure victory in Alabama in a year or three? The propaganda machine will smear anyone who dares to run with a D next to their name. You might as well own it and embrace the positions your voters want.
... that will ensure victory in Alabama ...
Narrator: It won't.
*continue to lost Alabama for the foreseeable future
They would rather hem and haw over how they think the public might respond somewhere else than motivate the user base that chose that candidate and spread that out to other areas.
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
How quickly we forget what happened to Bernie Sanders in 2016
This reminds me of the 2021 mayoral election in Buffalo, NY, where a progressive won the Democrat primary, but the conservatives (both Republicans and establishment Democrats) joined forces to back the establishment candidate in the general election.
that just confirms that they are one in the same, on the status quo. the old guard are just republican lite, or they wouldnt been able to be elected if they were R party.
Good.