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So the Hasan Piker/DSA strategy is to use Zohran Mamdani to push Jessica Tisch to the left lmfaooo (thelemmy.club)
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Hasan Piker on Mayor Zohran Mamdani and how Mamdani can leverage his popularity and outside forces like the DSA to potentially encourage Jessica Tisch to condemn the presence of ICE in New York City: "If Zohran Mamdani is a competent administrator, if he's a competent executive, he utilizes the unbelievable amounts of pressure coming from the outside to carve out a specific deal with Jessica Tisch, if he's not going to drop, which he probably isn't. If he was smart, he would use the outside forces, including the DSA, to his advantage to say, 'Look, I'm getting a lot of pressure. Your popularity is waning so you have to at least play ball with me here. You have to contest ICE activity. You can't actually defend ICE.'”
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[–] 25 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

Isn't this moot though? Say they expelled him from the DSA over this, he just becomes another "progressive dem" right? The larger public wouldn't even know they dropped him, would they? I just don't see how the DSA has real leverage here. He earned his clout by using them and now he has the Democratic machine to prop him up.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 hours ago*

    This is part of problem with running for executive when you don't have the power to both support your electeds against your enemies.

    That said I think this is untested, maybe NYC DSA could successfully support him against the NYC establishment and the police, but they are too focused on economism. Politics needs to be in command.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

    Ok but party discipline is authoritarian

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