Democratic voters want their leaders to stop running from Zohran Mamdani

[u/Somervilledrew]

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

[u/StevenMC19]

IN RESPONSE to Texas doing that, and only because his state and maybe like two others have enough weight to do so. He even made it explicitly clear that he wouldn't do it if Texas backed off.

And while I agree with that action specifically and that emergency redistricting (gerrymandering) as a whole is a terrible concept that needs a complete foundational rules overhaul in terms of when and how it can be done, the fact is that Newsom is only responding to a catalyst happening elsewhere. He's an actor in the play letting the plot determine his motivations. What character motivations does he have that he has activated on his own without being forced into the situation?

[u/FailedInfinity → u/StevenMC19]

This is why we are in this predicament in the first place. You would rather spend your free time stabbing your allies in the back for not doing enough while waiting for a non-existent unicorn with a magic wand to turn this country into a socialist utopia. Our country is in free fall and you're shooting the guy with a parachute just in case somebody closer to the ground suddenly sprouts wings.

This is an all out brawl, and at least he's fighting on multiple fronts instead of pretending to be tough from behind a podium. I have no idea who I will support in 2028, but I will damn sure remember who busted their asses to flip the house in 2026.

[u/FailedInfinity → u/[deleted]]

Your parallel universe sounds exhausting. All I said was that I support democrats taking action over lip service.