I think 1. young brown progressives make them feel old, irrelevant, and guilty and 2. they are terrified of how it looks bc they all have their own version of chuck schumer's imaginary bailey family (google it) who determines all their political decisions - ThreadSky

kathbarbadoro.bsky.social • 7 days ago

I think 1. young brown progressives make them feel old, irrelevant, and guilty and 2. they are terrified of how it looks bc they all have their own version of chuck schumer's imaginary bailey family (google it) who determines all their political decisions

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kathbarbadoro.bsky.social•7 days ago

the party pouring 20 million dollars into think tanks about how to appeal to young men, who lost a huge share of votes among young men, who are worried about their vote share with young men of color, should be so happy there's a guy in that demo who can reach those people. but no!

kathbarbadoro.bsky.social•7 days ago

Mamdani is a little bit of a goober (I say that affectionately) but I can’t think of another major democratic politician who’d be a good guest on both throwing fits and the breakfast club, idk

kathbarbadoro.bsky.social•7 days ago

I just don’t see anyone else having the kid mero (sort of the personification of the intersection of those two media markets) as a major campaign surrogate lol

kathbarbadoro.bsky.social•7 days ago

I don’t think it’s inauthentic but he’s been so careful in his campaign never to come across as edgy, or angry, or anything more emotional than “impassioned”, and it’s still not enough for these people. Any brown Muslim man is just dangerous and that’s that

nurseboystanley.bsky.social•7 days ago

They should be so lucky to have this be the guy to take over the mayor's office; considering all the insanely racist profiling for terrorism the NYPD did to every mosque in the city. It's a pressure release valve for alot of different groups righteous anger; for not much of a cost.

steve-bernard.bsky.social•7 days ago

I love that they desperately want to attract young men to their party but also treat any leftist candidate’s popularity with young men as defacto evidence that the candidate is somehow bad, and always specifically whine about the civic participation of said young men being too aggressive, lol

kathbarbadoro.bsky.social•7 days ago

lol that's a good point. we hate losing young men but we also hate whatever the current bernie bro analogue is

biniman.bsky.social•7 days ago

Yeah beyond the typical closing ranks around ruling class interests, what makes them go extra hard against Zohran is that his campaign has subverted the entire machine, making so many people in that world look vulnerable and irrelevant.

fleezlow.bsky.social•7 days ago

Perhaps focusing on "the Baileys" was once good short term strategy, but roughly more than ½ of the Baileys have successfully deranged themselves, and a plurality of them are, in fact, sick of Schumer's bullshit.

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