I would kill for a Coffee Crisp

so we won’t learn why he had a saudi passport and a bunch of very high level israel connections

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This coordinated resistance has exposed the hollowness of our democracy—a system that celebrates popular participation in theory, but punishes it in practice.

The implications of this election stretch beyond City Hall. Can the people really choose—even when the system says no?

In this election, that anti-Muslim racism has fused with the weaponization of false antisemitism claims—a tactic that’s really meant to police the limits of debate on Israel and Palestine.

#3: Anti-Muslim racism is the last bipartisan permission structure. Nobody loses any political capital by trotting out Islamophobic tropes, as many on the right predictably did.

But Democrats seized on the anti-Muslim tact with equal fervor, dubbing him a "jihadist," terrorist sympathizer or worse.

This election has implications far beyond the question of who controls trash pickup and fixing potholes in NYC. If Mamdani wins, it gives permission for ordinary people in both parties to begin asking deeper questions about the American political system.

Why? Because Mamdani represents a vision that doesn’t hew to entrenched interests. Dems give lip service to diversity—as long as diverse voices don’t buck the status quo.

#2: With the Democratic Party’s brand in the toilet, they should be celebrating a young, charismatic pol who has energized progressives through a grassroots movement not just in NYC but around the country.

Instead, they treated Mamdani’s primary win as an error to be corrected.

(Or, as @davidsirota.com puts it, they’re “so accustomed to political privilege that the prospect of slightly more democracy feels to them like oppression.)

#1: The billionaires are panicked. 26 of them have spent $22 million to take Mamdani down—because they recognize the influence a Mamdani victory could have on the rest of the country.

If Mamdani can win here, others like him might win elsewhere.

Simply invoke it and any act of destruction, depravity or violence becomes instantly justified. The accusation alone stains so deeply that questions of guilt or innocence become irrelevant. The job is done.