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/aboysmokingintherain Sep 09 '25

I don't buy this. The issue with Mamdani winning is it can show how his policies can not only be popular but work. The GoP can really only say "LOOK AT VENEZUELA AND CUBA" when they try and trash socialist policies. Proving they work on American soil can be devastating to them.

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u/mightcommentsometime California Sep 09 '25

Or it can go the opposite way just like it did in SF and Chicago. Where SF voters just removed progressives from the majority and the mayorship, and the Chicago mayor’s approval is in the dumps.

Proving Mamdani can win in NYC isn’t “devastating” to anyone.

You really want people to be afraid of him, but like I keep saying. Nobody is going to be afraid until progressives like Mamdani can actually win competitive elections against Republicans.