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Promising but rare example of vertical integration in left-wing populist action ? Mamdani. The horizontal integration can come later, as it has to..
by gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
Promising but rare example of vertical integration in left-wing populist action ? Mamdani. The horizontal integration can come later, as it has to..
- PaulHoule 1y agoI hesitate to call Mamdani a "populist". Some people think we need somebody who has the opposite policies of Trump but is twice as angry. Mamdani is not that at all -- he's the opposite of Trump in that he is low in dark traits, nice but firm. The more hysterical and angry his opponents get and the more he keeps his cool the more he's going to look like a leader. If you see him on video you're going to be sold https://mastodon.social/@anildash@me.dm/114784543323240972 https://mastodon.social/@anildash@me.dm/114784543323240972 The smarter centrists get it https://www.natesilver.net/p/the-two-theories-of-zohran https://www.natesilver.net/p/the-two-theories-of-zohran It's just so cringe to seem anybody getting behind Cuomo or Adams. We've got to put that old corrupt New York machine and the politicians who are part of it out to pasture.
- gsf_emergency_2 1y agoTell me if you don't think he's similar to early Pedro Sanchez? What makes Sanchez not a populist is that he tamped down the anti-estab vibes as he rose. (Theory #1 in Nate Silver's, this would be the horizontal integration part) https://youtube.com/shorts/IOFU8abI47c https://youtube.com/shorts/IOFU8abI47c (It seems like Mamdani should be able to do that without looking like a traitor tho. Also disregard that everything else screams fratboy Trudeau in that yt short) Most worrying to the dems (on top of the antiestab look) might be that he's Muslim. Farsi to my ears. Hope they don't harp on that Or maybe they should, in the primaries, so that he builds some immunity Unlikely+hilarious (but exciting) were he to join forces with Elon Edits: after reading your Nate Silver link