Let me start with something simple. I called this. Not in some vague, wishy-washy, “well anything could happen” kind of way. I called this specifically, and clearly, and the people who told me I was being too cynical, too harsh, too uncharitable toward a promising young progressive politician can now sit with what happened onContinue reading “I Told You So: Zohran Mamdani’s Trump Meeting Is Everything Wrong With Progressive Politics”
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Why Iāve Lost Faith in the Democrats ā and Why Zohran Mamdani Doesnāt Restore It
There was a time when I still held out hope for the Democratic Party. I believed that, maybe, with enough pressure, we could move them left ā that through progressive insurgents, we could take the party of Clinton and Pelosi and make it serve working people. But over the years, and especially in light ofContinue reading “Why Iāve Lost Faith in the Democrats ā and Why Zohran Mamdani Doesnāt Restore It”