Yeah, organizing a bunch of people and getting them all behind the same candidates to disrupt a well entrenched political machine is an accomplishment, but I think the real story here is that that bunch of people that are still furious with Jeffries' and AIPAC's genocidal bullshit and all the terrible effects they've had on our politics, and Mamdani is just in the right place at the right time to seize on that anger and make it productive

Isn't Mamdani also rich? Won't be therefore be an oligarch also? Technically.

the GOP old guard died with trump, now it's the democrats turn

I think they're trying to compare him to Robert Moses, who has a book called "The Power Broker" written about him. He was a prominent NYC unelected government official who held great sway over NYC and NY politics for decades.

I don't think it's a good comparison, as Mamdani was fairly elected, and didn't use his soft power to get others elected. He just endorsed people with the politics people have wanted for the democratic party for decades.

IMO, savvy supporters of his should start flipping these silly phrases on their head. Like:

"We're not burning bridges, we're replacing stubborn gatekeepers."

or

"We're not burning bridges, we're building new ones to the workers who feel abandoned."

or

"We're not radical leftists because what's more centrist than speaking to the heart of America, it's working class?"

or even

"Washington doesn't have a 'lack of centrists' problem, it has a self-centerist problem."

You've got it backwards.

People seeing Mamdani as the face of Progressivism is a good thing.

Most people are idiots, and vote for stupid reasons. Donald Trump, born a millionaire, managed to convince people he was 'anti-establishment.'

You're going to get a lot more votes with a handsome couple than you will with a million well researched position papers.

Exactly. The goal is to stop the change of politics from a money machine to a force that creates positive change (for the bottom 90%).

They cannot attack the policies, because the US has proven they have billions for useless stuff and never for improving the lives of the citizens who live here. So instead they have to make it seem like the party who is starting this change is using underhanded tactics or is driven by one person. Otherwise they would have to acknowledge that this is what the base wants from their politicians.

Being a skilled candidate isn't the same thing as being a "power broker" in the machine-politics sort of way CNN is trying to insinuate. They're trying to paint him as a corrupt, 'more of the same (just a slightly different flavor)' establishment-esque Democrat in order to minimize and distract from the fact that, yes, the People actually do want socialist policies.

"So you hate pancakes" ass sentence