Plenty of New Yorkers who voted for Zohran Mamdani in last month’s City Hall election previously backed Donald Trump at the ballot box, despite their obvious political differences, new data reveals
Surprised it’s not higher really. Politically engaged folks like to think it’s all left vs right, socialism vs whatever the fuck you want to call Trunmpism.
At the end of the day a lot of voters vote for the person who tells them they’re going to make their lives better in a way they can believe.
I can totally see a vibes based Trump voter also voting Mamdani. They’re both charismatic guys selling a vision for the future.
Visions, which at the core, are the same ‘I’ll make your life better’. The details are starkly opposed but that’s not important for someone who just wants change and to believe it can happen.
It is inherently socialism vs capitalism, left vs right, worker vs owner. The want to vote for the average person’s lives to be better is objectively a manifestation of a tacit understanding that the balance of power has shifted so far out of what is acceptable. It is a desire for the working class to be in more control of the destiny of this country and by extension the people who live in that country and make it what it is.
I know that makes it sound like I’m reading into it a ton but the reality really is working class power = average person’s life gets better. Full stop.
Surprised it’s not higher really. Politically engaged folks like to think it’s all left vs right, socialism vs whatever the fuck you want to call Trunmpism.
At the end of the day a lot of voters vote for the person who tells them they’re going to make their lives better in a way they can believe.
I can totally see a vibes based Trump voter also voting Mamdani. They’re both charismatic guys selling a vision for the future.
Visions, which at the core, are the same ‘I’ll make your life better’. The details are starkly opposed but that’s not important for someone who just wants change and to believe it can happen.
My turds have more charisma than Trump
It is inherently socialism vs capitalism, left vs right, worker vs owner. The want to vote for the average person’s lives to be better is objectively a manifestation of a tacit understanding that the balance of power has shifted so far out of what is acceptable. It is a desire for the working class to be in more control of the destiny of this country and by extension the people who live in that country and make it what it is.
I know that makes it sound like I’m reading into it a ton but the reality really is working class power = average person’s life gets better. Full stop.