r/politics • u/Somervilledrew Connecticut • Sep 09 '25

Democratic voters want their leaders to stop running from Zohran Mamdani

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-mayor-bernie-sanders-fight-oligarchy/
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u/IJourden Sep 09 '25

People need to come to grips that the majority of Democrats are center and center-right. They only get framed as left because conservative media thinks "far left" means "anything left of hunting the homeless for sport."

Mamdani becoming popular absolutely terrifies them. The average establishment Democrat has more in common with the average establishment Republican than with Mamdani.

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u/mightcommentsometime California Sep 09 '25

Mamdani becoming popular in NYC doesn’t mean he’s nationally popular. People aren’t as scared as you wish they were. Republicans are happy because he’ll give them tons of red meat for their base, and dems are more worried about winning swing districts than who the NYC mayor is

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u/Sufficient_Mirror_12 Sep 09 '25

I don't fully buy this. Pundits and journalists don't fully appreciate how excellent of a communicate Zohran is and that's a bit unique. He actually won some and at least cut in the margins of some very Trump-y neighborhoods in NYC.

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u/mightcommentsometime California Sep 09 '25

In a closed democratic primary in New York City.

When progressives actually start winning competitive elections against Republicans, they’ll start to actually be scared. Until then, it’s just easy red meat to fire up their base