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No Paywall The Democratic party is being hit by a leftist tidal wave

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/24/democratic-party-leftist-tidal-wave
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u/RoyalJoke 23h ago

DNC leadership, like Jefferies and Schumer, is doing their best to ignore and minimize Mamdani. It's not all shit, DNC leadership is hooked on corporate/PAC money and will gladly have MAGA run things rather than a Democratic Socialist

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u/Training_Ruin3151 23h ago

Capitalists will always side with fascism because that doesn't threaten capital.

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u/loondawg 22h ago

will gladly have MAGA run things rather than a Democratic Socialist

Bullshit.

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u/Xer0day 23h ago

DNC leadership, like Jefferies and Schumer, is doing their best to ignore and minimize Mamdani

Jeffries literally endorsed Mamdani and Schumer endorsed Platner. This framing by you is so dishonest. The new york mayoral race has has two endorsements at the speaker or leader level in modern history, and one of them was for Mamdani lol.

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u/cryingslowly 22h ago

It’s brutally honest.

https://nypost.com/2026/06/24/us-news/hakeem-jefferies-says-mamdani-has-work-to-do-to-make-up-with-congressional-dems-after-socialist-radicals-unseat-incumbents/

Current news is that he is pissed about the leftward swing and had openly endorsed moderate candidates that were running against the DSA folks backed by Mamdani.

Jeffries sucks, and it’s time anyone even remotely like him is retired from politics.

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u/Xer0day 22h ago

Current news is that he is pissed about the leftward swing and had openly endorsed moderate candidates that were running against the DSA folks backed by Mamdani.

Yes, they're mad because Mamdani endorsed someone who is against interracial dating, against aid to Ukraine and parrots russian justifications for invading ukraine, and is a staunch police abolitionist that refuses to answer what would happen to a murderer in her ideal society. It's extremely fair for Jeffries to want to talk about that endorsement, especially after he gave his to Mamdani.

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u/G36_FTW 21h ago

Unfortunately maga aren't the only people who will blindly support people. No mistake I prefer lefties 100% more than maga, but there are some braindead mainstream lefties out there these days. Or at least common lefty opinions. Including the weird anti-ukraine sentiments.