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"Mamdani’s core supporters are drawn more from the “post-college professionals” rather than the immigrants [...] These are middle-class types who feel thwarted in some way."

To paraphrase Selina Zito, maybe treat these libtards seriously but not literally?

I think look past the support for "global intifada", desire for state run food stores and vote for hand rice subway eating idiot and see a middle class that is getting squeezed hard in the current political system. Rents are high and wages are flat. Not too many financial breaks in NYC for the middle class. Mamdani offers these people a protest vote against the status quo.

We've already seen a similar protest vote pattern in Seattle for over 10 years now (NYC behind us in this regard voting for DSA). The pattern is middle class protest vote for DSA types based on economic insecurity. Then elected DSA politicians deliver lefty culture and economics for lower class, while worsening situation for middle class voter. Bad choice made, bad result delivered for the middle class libtard. But what option is there? Centrist Dems got us into this situation and Republicans/conservatives shrink from urban areas like vampires from garlic.

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Agreed Scott but I feel like it needs to be added that there is a fair number of right wing lumpen bourgeoisie as well. Lots of rw millennial and zoomer men face a lot of the same struggles and also don’t have much to lose.

Not enough to form a “revolutionary cohort” or what have you but this sort of radicalism exists on both sides of the political spectrum.

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