“With respect to the Jewish communities that I represent, I think our nominee is going to have to convince folks that he is prepared to aggressively address the rise in antisemitism in the city of New York, which has been an unacceptable development,” Jeffries said on ABC’s This Week.

i seriously hope hakeem jeffries looses whatever elections he tries to run in.

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 58 points 1 week ago (27 children)

As far as I’ve seen thus far, Mamdani:

has never espoused an antisemitic opinion
has affirmed his commitment to ensuring that Jewish New Yorkers are protected from heinous antisemitic attacks, and also has condemned the attack against Israeli embassy staffers in DC
has high-profile Jewish allies and backers for his campaign
has condemned Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7th in very clear and direct terms
stated that Muslims and Jews in New York can be an example to the world in how they communicate and get along with each other
is not running to be mayor of Israel

Also, Jeffries sucks.

I think it’s high time we take over the Democratic Party and drive these dinosaurs out, with pitchforks if need be.

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

The Democratic Party cannot be taken over. It is not a democratic institution. You could have 70% of elected Democrats agreeing with you and being variations on Mamdani and "party leadership" wouod still be outside your hands and they would still be working against you and there would be nothing you could do to advance your position in the party. It is a private, bourgeois institutional governed by ita donors and those donors' supplicants.

More practically, what you could hope for is entryism and then a split. That is the basic claimed premise by DemSocs in DSA who argue for running as Dems. Unsurprisingly, this is a Trotskyist tactic and basically never works. But trying and failing in a very public way may still be a boon for radicalization and growing our ranks.

But only with discipline (or luck)! The Dems will try to coopt everything appealing about DemSocs without stepping on the toes of donors. And that cooption begins with Mamdani himself, who will be constantly pressured to soften his stances and be more lib. DSA has zero discipline whatsoever, so with someone like Mamdani one would have to depend on luck, i.e. just this one guy being principled. This is the DSA way and it is why they eat shit in 90% of their electoralism, they back candidates with no vetting and usually provide no support. But maybe they got lucky with this one guy.

[–] blunder@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Only disagree with: "they back candidates with no vetting and usually provide no support."

The volunteer effort around Zohran was nuts, I mean I read 50,000 volunteers around a DSA member, that's not "no support".

Whether you think those 50,000 people are wasting their time is another thing but I feel like this website's hatred of DSA is so hyperbolic at times, and especially contradictory towards Zohran

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

Well I used a weasel word qualifier of "usually" because there are exceptions of course. There is no internal standard or political education program in DSA so it really depends on what composes a given local chapter and who their leadership currently are. It ranges from jokers that never win anything and don't even file for candidacy in time (because they forgot, because life is hard, because Todd was supposed to do it but then he got sick) all the way up to a Mamdani who has been a force for years and has a coalition backing him, not just NY DSA, who are very electorally invested and do have competent people (but overly suffer from electoralism brain and therefore liberalism).

PS you'd hate a lot of NY DSA if you had conversations with them about basically anything regarding imperialism or unions having petty bourgeois limitations or how much to avoid criticizing Iron Dome AOC. Most of them would get themselves banned from this site for chauvinism.

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

I've heard on this site that local DSA can be a lot better than national DSA

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