excuse me? both parties ran an explicitly sinophobic campaign, not once have the politician or their voting base looked inwards.

Nah.

Look at everyone attacking Mamdani, ethno fascists, techbros, liberals...

Its pretty much all 'he is a big bad scary communist.'

He is of course not actually a communist, but even an actual socdem is so far to the left of the American Overton Window, the only vocab words that exist are 'commie! socialist! which are the same thing, or something!'

Granted, the fact that Mamdani has significant public support means that there are more Americans who are more left-wing ... but the actual Dem leadership, as with Bernie, cannot countenance losing their corpo megadonors, so they pull out the stops for anything left of ... rainbow capitalism.

You have Trump doing Hitler 2.0 electric boogaloo and Bernie call it Stalinist cult come one

I don’t think many here are looking at shit that’s going down locally and saying “…Damn Russkies.”

What? "Damn Russkies!" is like the number one thing hardcore Democrat supporters blame for the state of the US

Then what's all the China rhetoric about

Though to be fair I think it has died down a bit

My neighbor blames every current problem on democrats by saying "they are communist" as his main point.