Not long ago, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was demonized by leaders of both political parties. Today, just six months after taking office, the 34-year-old democratic socialist’s political strength is surging.
Always a darling of the far left, he has earned praise from both Donald Trump and former Democratic critics like New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. He has emerged as the face of the region’s sports renaissance. And days before New York’s primary elections, Mamdani is testing the limits of his newfound political muscle in a bid to reshape the Democratic Party — in his state capital and in Washington — even if it means challenging his own party’s leadership.
Mamdani will join Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. at a get-out-the-vote rally in Brooklyn on Thursday. The event is designed to elevate a slate of candidates aligned with Mamdani’s values, including two running against Democratic incumbents in Tuesday’s primary.
I was lucky enough to meet some old school Communists, folks who’d fought in Spain and been blacklisted in the 1950s.
One thing they told me was that back in 1968 they were telling folks that Hubert Humphrey was a million times better than Richard Nixon and they needed to make sure he won.
Or you can go back to Frederick Douglas, who backed Lincoln when Honest Abe was telling folks that preserving the Union was far more important than ending slavery.
Turns out Abe was fucking wrong.
You do realize he ended up doing both…?
I believe they are saying that preserving the union was a mistake.
If they think that, they don’t know anything about US history.
Maryland and West Virginia were both slave states. If the CSA had happened the Union probably would have kept slaves.
The slaves in the South would have stayed.
There’s no reason to think that the Union wouldn’t have pursued the same imperialistic course without the South. In fact, it would be more likely to gobble up South American territories after losing the CSA’s raw materials.