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gbbranstetter.bsky.social Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Jun 30
This is really the bedrock of why Mamdani is not as vulnerable to identity grievances over immigrants, trans people, Muslims, or more. Democrats keep trying to focus group their way out of these issues one-by-one but their vulnerabilities are more existential than that and stem from general distrust
At the end of our conversation, I asked Weber how she would describe Zohranomics. As municipal socialism, perhaps? Or municipal Rooseveltism? “I’m not sure we need to search for ‘isms’ here,” she replied. “If anything, it is a very effective form of antifascist economic policy. We are at a moment where the crisis of economic security, of affordability, that comes with basic questions of dignity and identity are being used by the far right in ways that fuel the return of fascist tendencies. I think that having an agenda that is laser-focussed on the needs of ordinary people is what we need, and that is basically where the Democrats fell flat last year. At the federal level and the global level, we are dealing with the consequences of that lack of vision right now.”
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The future of abortion care and trans healthcare are inextricable linked because conservatives want to control every aspect of people's lives, forcing Christian religious beliefs on believers and nonbelievers alike.
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