I’m not hoping for anything other than marginally increasing class consciousness in a handful of people. Electoralism won’t accomplish anything, but if he can shift the Overton Window just a smidge to make Socialism be a bit less scary to some people while at the same time showing how the “lesser evil” democrats will fucking annihilate anything to the left of Bush Jr. then he’ll have done his job.

I just hope that leftist groups in the US, particularly New York, see this as an opportunity to stuff some actual theory down the gullets of all the baby birdies lined up gawking at Zohran and what the democrats are gonna do to him between now and November.

If nothing else, I think Mamdani getting so many Democrats to line up to commit political suicide is funny. I've seen even the most annoying white liberals getting pissed at Hakeem Jeffries & others for their constant, bad faith attacks on Mamdani on Bluesky. Shit's wild.

I understand what I posted before (https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8309838/6593453) might contadict my current sentiment and this may be my bias as a westerner showing but I am thoroughly enjoying the backlash tears against Mamdani. And in this sociopathic malignant society that indeed is refreshing.

I have just discovered:

(1) racist backlash to video of Mamdani eating rice with his hands

(2) he highlighted USAID involvement in Cuba destablisation

(1) has unironically proven he is a man of the highest of cultures.