The key to understanding Trump II is that it’s an administration predicated on doing a national murder-suicide for the crime of embarrassing Trump in 2020
That's right
y'all
The reason they want his politics to fail is that an anti-Zionism rooted in a multiracial social democratic humanism is genuinely in keeping with the traditions of the Democratic Party and American Jewry. They want the choice to be Nazis or them, so that we're all with them.
Leah Greenberg ❌👑
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Mikhail Gorbaechev
Stephen Judkins
so cool that this administration was handed the basis for more or less an economic renaissance and instead they decided to shoot the global economy in the gut—and then the head—before killing the freedom of navigation for shits and giggles
But yeah the reason Mamdani is perceived as a bigger threat is because he actually is. He won the mayoralty and channeled a significant discontent with the pro-Israel consensus under a persuasive framework. For now the NYT et al don't really think of groypers as being capable of doing that.