Zohran Mamdani won the New York City Democratic mayoral primary on June 24 with 56% of the vote in the final runoff, but several prominent Democrats have still not endorsed him. Those withholding support include Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, Sen. Gov.
  • WatDabney@sopuli.xyz
    63·
    9 days ago

    Because he’s a leftist who’s apparently sincerely promising to actually work for the benefit of ordinary people and appears ready to actually do that if he wins.

    Democrats like to pretend that they’re all of those things too, but really all they ever try to be is somewhat less awful than Republicans, which is an easy enough task that they can generally succeed.

    But if they end up being compared with someone like Mamdani, they’re going to be revealed for the complacent, corrupt conservatives they actually are.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    42·
    9 days ago

    1: They have a whole bunch of voter base analysis experts who will stick tooth and nail to the theory that if they go too far left they’ll alienate part of their voter base and lose votes, even though it has been demonstrated again and again that trying to maintain the status quo is a failure that lead to Trump’s election to begin with and so is “playing the center” against an increasingly radical right.

    2: They’re also owned by the Corporations even if they’re not as open about it like the Republicans are and do not want to actually fix any of the issues the people actually want fixed. It feels like they’re just waiting for Trump to die, MAGA to collapse and them to win the next elections without ever making a single effort to do anything for the people.

    • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      9 days ago

      The influx of monied interests that fled the GOP during the first Trump term are largely to blame, IMO. They are rotting the Democratic Party from the inside, pushing to keep the failed economic policies of the Reagan-era, and the DNC have gotten fat and lazy feeding off their teet.

      It is embarrassing to think that the most progressive policy that the US Congress was able to pass this millennium was the ACA back in ‘09.

      • Ascrod@midwest.socialEnglish
        4·
        8 days ago

        The corporate rot of the Democratic party and corruption by monied interests has been around since at least the Clinton era, and that was in response to Reagan. It all comes back to Ronald fucking Reagan.

        • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          8 days ago

          Absolutely agree that the rot was present all the way back then, my contention is more that the influx of Never-Trumper, temporarily embarrassed Republican monied interests into the modern Democratic Party was the final straw that broke the camel’s back.

          I would go so far as to state that the GOP Fiscal Policy of the ‘90s would align with the current DNC platform, that is how far right the Overton Window has shifted in my lifetime.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
    251·
    9 days ago

    Here are the people who have endorsed him from his page:

    https://www.zohranfornyc.com/endorsements

    Then there’s organized labor. Most of the city’s major labor unions have already endorsed Mamdani. A total of 67 unions and political organizations, along with nine state senators, 17 assembly members and 16 council members, or roughly one-third of the City Council, have thrown their support behind him.

    https://abc7ny.com/post/nyc-mayoral-race-zohran-mamdani-failing-secure-endorsement-top-democrats-like-kathy-hochul-hakeem-jeffries/17665962/

  • ALLGLORYTOHYPNOTOAD@lemmy.world
    24·
    9 days ago

    They are beholden to their capitalist masters. Democratic leadership only goes as far left as the donor class will allow. Mamdani scares the wealthy, so the Democratic leadership doesn’t want him to succeed.

  • Ileftreddit@lemmy.world
    10·
    8 days ago

    Democrats have their fingers in their ears and their eyes closed. Mamdani isn’t just going to win, he’s going to start a wave of Dem Soc candidates across the country