Obama and Mamdani
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I fail to see why any leftist should ever again listen to a centrist or liberal say that they should shut up and vote for the choice of Democrats when said centrists in New York are all in for Andrew Cuomo after Mamdani kicked his ass in the primary. It’s total, unhinged hypocrisy from Cuomo himself, from the New York Times, from Chuck Schumer, from Hakeem Jeffries, and from many national Democrats. Tell me, why should leftists listen to this bullshit ever again? Does it not apply when centrists lose too? How are you going to get past this ever again?
But one exception to all this seems to be Barack Obama.
In the days after it became clear Zohran Mamdani had won New York City’s June mayoral primary, much of the Democratic establishment began to panic.
Former President Barack Obama, the last Democrat to captivate the party’s base, got on the phone. In a lengthy call in June, Mr. Obama congratulated Mr. Mamdani, offered him advice about governing and discussed the importance of giving people hope in a dark time, according to people with knowledge of the conversation.
Others in Mr. Obama’s orbit have also shown a keen interest in Mr. Mamdani and his campaign. Jon Favreau, who served as Mr. Obama’s speechwriter, and Dan Pfeiffer, a former senior adviser, have been in communication with the Democratic strategist Morris Katz, among Mr. Mamdani’s closest aides.
David Axelrod, who served as Mr. Obama’s chief campaign strategist and senior adviser, was also curious. Last month, he stopped by Mr. Mamdani’s campaign headquarters, then in the Flatiron neighborhood of Manhattan, to meet the candidate and his staff, and see things for himself.
“What I found when I went over to that office was a familiar spirit that I hadn’t seen in a while of just determined, upbeat idealism,” Mr. Axelrod told me. “You may not agree with every answer he’s giving, or every idea he has, but he’s certainly asking the right questions, which is how do we make the country work for working people?” He said Mr. Mamdani’s ability to inspire young Americans, who feel economic uncertainty acutely, was critical and something the party at large needed to reckon with.
Mr. Axelrod was introduced to Mr. Mamdani by Patrick Gaspard, another Obama insider. Mr. Gaspard — Mr. Obama’s 2008 national political director, and later the U.S. ambassador to South Africa — has been serving as an informal adviser to Mr. Mamdani.
The interest from the closely guarded world of Mr. Obama and those around him is the clearest sign yet that Mr. Mamdani is likely to be embraced by the Democratic mainstream, whether the party’s leaders and donors like it or not. It comes at a time of dueling visions among voters, Democratic politicians and donors over the future of the party.
Yes! Now, obviously if Obama really wanted to drop the bomb, he shows up in New York with Mamdani and does an endorsement surrounded by Al Sharpton and other leading Black Democrats. He’s not going to do that. But there’s no way this Times article was not published without his approval. I mean, it just seems obvious–support who Democratic voters want! And yet Schumer, Gillibrand, Jeffries, Cuomo, and so many others are no better than the dumbest Bernie Bro alive.