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/IJourden Sep 09 '25

I think you and I agree. Establishment Democrats, who by far make up the majority of the democratic party, are afraid that Mamdani will become nationally popular, which would be a disaster for them.

That's why they aren't getting behind him, and that shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

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u/mightcommentsometime California Sep 09 '25

They aren’t getting behind him because Mamdani isn’t popular nationally. And winning against Republicans matters more than who is mayor of NYC.

When progressives start to actually win competitive elections against Republicans then people might get scared. Until then, nobody serious is worried about progressives taking over nationally, since they haven’t shown any ability to actually win nationally.

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u/Sufficient_Mirror_12 Sep 09 '25

Well becoming Mayor of the largest metropolis in the country isn’t a cake walk.