• pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The party is supporting him for fucks sake…

    It’s good to see that Ken Martin isn’t attacking Mamdani, but Schumer and Jefferies are refusing to endorse him. You can’t say the party is supporting Mamdani when its two highest ranking members, both representatives from Mamdani’s city, are withholding their endorsement.

    Stop treating random shitty neoliberals as “the party” when their wing was just kicked out of the DNC.

    The people you want to “punish” were voted out of leadership in the last DNC election, by the voting members of the DNC…

    I’m really struggling to understand why you believe this. The party just kicked Davie Hogg out of leadership for threatening entrenched power, and Ken Martin isn’t exactly fighting the neoliberal wing of the party either. One of the main differences between him and Ben Wikler, his main opponent for DNC chair, is that Martin wanted to continue taking money from, “good billionaires.” Even in the interview you shared, Martin goes out of his way to defend centrist and even conservative Democrats:

    You win by bringing people into your coalition. We have conservative Democrats. We have centrist Democrats. We have labor progressives like me, and we have this new brand of Democrat, which is the leftist.

    The neoliberal wing of the party is on the back foot right now, but they haven’t been kicked out. Many of them are trying to stage a comeback with Project 2029 and the Abundance Agenda, and plenty voting DNC members will support them. The fight for control of the party isn’t over; it’s barely started.