Originally published at: Schumer Never Endorsed Mamdani
Baffling Political Miscalculation It is now Election Day in New York, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) never endorsed Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City. He wouldn’t even say whether he voted for him. It wasn’t for lack of opportunity — he was asked about his conspicuous non-endorsement nearly…
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So, it sure sounds to me like he didn’t vote for him, and doesn’t want people to know he voted for Cuomo.
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Democrats are unpopular. This is why.
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Schumer has dual loyalties, to America and Israel. And that includes Netanyahu, and the butchery and starvation over there.
I have always generally liked Schumer, but this conflict hurts his legacy and is not acceptable. Israel has been wagging the dog for decades, and to the extent that Schumer has supported that, one should ask if he’s the best person for that job. We need new blood there. He should retire from the leadership in ‘26, if not earlier.
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So, it’s easy to say “corporate Dems” this, and AIPAC that, but Mamdami is unproven. I think the question of “is he the future of the party” is insulting and unserious. Yes, he should have been endorsed as the Democratic nominee, but let’s see if he outperforms Bill de Blasio once in office before we anoint him the savior of the human race. I hope he does, but until he governs he’s still a question mark. He could be Tom Bradley or he could be Dennis Kucinich.
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Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) has taken it upon himself to legitimize the effort in Congress to ban Mamdani fro taking office.
Section 3 of the 14th amendment does allow Congress to bar an elected official from office if they have engaged in an insurrection or rebellion against the Constitution. But they need two-thirds of both houses to do this.
I’m sorry but calling to resist ICE is not an insurrection. They could have very well used it then against convicted felon.
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Timidity is a problem w/ Democratic leadership but so also is lack of imagination. Defending a fellow Democrat would show some spine but finding innovative ways to characterize his detractors as revanchist, reactionary governing misfits would demonstrate rhetorical skill sadly lacking thus far.
Acting like whipped dogs when the Republican wurlitzer warms up just ain’t a good look; time to show some serious teeth and howl.
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We need new blood, and Cuomo is not that person. He will have strong guard-rails to avoid wrecking things. We should give him a chance.
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I agree he deserves a chance.
Democrats desperately need leadership change in the party, and it’s not just the geriatrics that need ousting. Mamdani is a hopeful glimmer of that new era — but he will have to forge ahead under unrelenting attack from the opposing party and its media apparatus, and with no institutional support whatsoever from his own.
There is understandable enthusiasm for Mamdami in this evening TPM post, and I understand and applaud it as a rebuke to the geriatric Dem party leadership. However, and this is going to be something I’ll keep repeating and I have in the past, Dems can’t win statewide and national elections by embracing Democratic Socialism.
Yeah, I know, Mamdani isn’t exactly Karl Marx incarnate, but we can’t win without the growing demographic of Latino voters. “Socialism” is absolutely radioactive with that segment of our big tent, due to historical contingencies in their home countries.
So let’s celebrate for NYC, but figure out how to avoid this being our main national message, unless we want to be a rump party with no power for the next several years. We can promote progressive ideas without a radioactive label like that.
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I have grown to utterly loathe the senior Dem leadership. They’re all still whipped from Reagan and the 1980s, I swear to God. Don’t run from the fascist GOP and let it define you; define them, take the fight to them. I sure do miss having Harry Reid as our leader in the Senate.
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I care infinitely less about the “future of the Democratic party”, and all the Ezra Klein-like pontificating about it, than I do about bringing a halt to the Trump regime. When this regime is finished, however that may come to be, the political landscape will likely be entirely different than it is now. First things first.
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Exactly what I said earlier - none of this ever applied to anyone related to J6.
On another topic: is there any kind of live blog planned for the election tonight? Where are we tracking results?
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The opposite of democratic socialism is oligarchy. If dems can’t win fighting oligarchy, they don’t deserve to win.
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“These Democrats are palpably terrified of the right’s guaranteed next move — to make Mamdani the radical, socialist, MUSLIM face of the party.“
Not quite. They will call him a communist.
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He’s not a communist. He is not advocating state control of the distribution of resources. He is simply advocating that capitalism have rules, which makes him a capitalist.
I am tired of people conflating regulated capitalism, and democratic socialism, with communism. They are wrong. It’s obvious when you point out that Mandami has no plans to nationalize industry, has no plans to eliminate small businesses, and has no plans to centralize authority of the distribution of goods and services. He’s not a communist.
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There are pages up right now on the White House website showing Jeffries in a sombrero and he doesn’t have the wherewithal to support the Democratic candidates that actually excite people and can beat Republicans?
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Decades ago, anytime someone would mention AIPAC, I would think they were being anti-Semitic. Suggesting a conspiracy led by Jewish peoples is textbook antisemitism. I was wrong. The conspiracy does exist, Israel is destroying our politics. It isn’t antisemitic, it’s just reality.
There are actually people out there, and the Democratic leadership is among them, who believe that the children of Gaza deserve to die, and those who protest their murder are the problem. These people are all funded by AIPAC. They may honestly believe that Israel is right to commit genocide, or they may just be taking the money, but they are destroying the Democratic party, because the people don’t believe in murdering children.
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I remember when they called Ike a communist. The haters have been running their programs for decades. They are effective only if you take them seriously.
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This is all about donor money.
The tables have been over turned. This really is a turning point. The entire democratic structure is threatened because Mamdani won without them.
Establishment dems are telegraphing their fealty to the current patronage system created by Citizens United.
Caught flat footed again.
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