Mamdani Represents The Raw Authenticity The Democratic Party Needs
By Peter Rothpletz\Zeteo Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons To channel SNL’s Stefon, last night’s Big Apple debate had everything: cocktail napkins, TikTok dances, bottles of Red Bull, and Islamophobic accusations of global jihad. Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani and former New York Governor and independent candidate Andrew Cuomo argued quite viciously over the course of their 95-minute tête-à-tête. Republican Curtis Sliwa was also there (and he was so funny). All in all, it was an intense but extremely absurd affair (watch the highlights here). If you happened to tune in, I regret to inform you that the debate was an utter sideshow. You wasted your time. The main event, the conversation that anyone and everyone who genuinely cares about the future of the progressive left, occurred hours earlier on the “manosphere” Flagrant podcast. Stay with me… Hear me out… Future Mayor Mamdani sat down with MAGA-friendly comedian Andrew Schulz, and he killed it. He was charming. He was clever. He was humble. He was fundamentally human. Most importantly, he was persuasive. Just watch: Given all this, here’s the million-dollar question? Why isn’t the Democratic establishment backing Mamdani? Yes, yes, I’m aware of the Bill Ackman of it all. But I said “million dollar,” not “billion dollar” question. Why haven’t House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and a broad swath of Democratic voices endorsed one of the single most talented messengers the Dems have stumbled upon since Barack Obama? It boggles the mind! The man is everything they claim they want. He’s young. He’s charismatic. He’s masculine. And, as we learned yesterday, he can communicate with and charm even the most non-PC manosphere personalities. Mamdani is, by the establishment’s own accounting, MAGA kryptonite. The Democratic Party, for the sake of its own survival, must learn how to take yes as an answer. To date, it refuses. It’s baffling. It’s as if the establishment is deadly allergic to any manner of novelty, to any sort of risk, to even the most everyday person who just wants to make a difference. In entertaining this aversion, the establishment whistles past the graveyard. Jeffries, Schumer, and company must ask themselves this: what, exactly, are they so afraid of? That someone might actually feel inspired? That a Democrat might appear to be real and earnest and unscripted for once? Mamdani represents the thing the Democratic machine constantly pretends to seek out but can never quite stomach: raw authenticity. Couple that with economic populism and anti-fascism, and WOWZA. Don’t y’all ever want to win?
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By Peter Rothpletz\Zeteo
Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons
To channel SNL’s Stefon, last night’s Big Apple debate had everything: cocktail napkins, TikTok dances, bottles of Red Bull, and Islamophobic accusations of global jihad.
Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani and former New York Governor and independent candidate Andrew Cuomo argued quite viciously over the course of their 95-minute tête-à-tête. Republican Curtis Sliwa was also there (and he was so funny).
All in all, it was an intense but extremely absurd affair (watch the highlights here).
If you happened to tune in, I regret to inform you that the debate was an utter sideshow.
You wasted your time.
The main event, the conversation that anyone and everyone who genuinely cares about the future of the progressive left, occurred hours earlier on the “manosphere” Flagrant podcast.
Stay with me… Hear me out…
Future Mayor Mamdani sat down with MAGA-friendly comedian Andrew Schulz, and he killed it. He was charming. He was clever. He was humble. He was fundamentally human. Most importantly, he was persuasive. Just watch:
Given all this, here’s the million-dollar question? Why isn’t the Democratic establishment backing Mamdani?
Yes, yes, I’m aware of the Bill Ackman of it all. But I said “million dollar,” not “billion dollar” question.
Why haven’t House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and a broad swath of Democratic voices endorsed one of the single most talented messengers the Dems have stumbled upon since Barack Obama?
It boggles the mind!
The man is everything they claim they want. He’s young. He’s charismatic. He’s masculine. And, as we learned yesterday, he can communicate with and charm even the most non-PC manosphere personalities. Mamdani is, by the establishment’s own accounting, MAGA kryptonite.
The Democratic Party, for the sake of its own survival, must learn how to take yes as an answer.
To date, it refuses. It’s baffling. It’s as if the establishment is deadly allergic to any manner of novelty, to any sort of risk, to even the most everyday person who just wants to make a difference. In entertaining this aversion, the establishment whistles past the graveyard.
Jeffries, Schumer, and company must ask themselves this: what, exactly, are they so afraid of? That someone might actually feel inspired? That a Democrat might appear to be real and earnest and unscripted for once? Mamdani represents the thing the Democratic machine constantly pretends to seek out but can never quite stomach: raw authenticity.
Couple that with economic populism and anti-fascism, and WOWZA.
Don’t y’all ever want to win?
