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I wish this post motivates people who are depressed or in a rut: I swear it becomes better if you don't give up. Only now that I am mentally healthy, do I know
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CMV: Mamdani's win in NYC was a fluke, the Democratic Party is not trending left or embracing socialism, and the only re
Long title so I'll so elaborate on the view I have regarding Zohran Mamdani's victory relative to the Democratic Party as a whole. I think that it happened almost solely because Andrew Cuomo entered the Democratic primary, and that he personally destroyed the any moderates' chances at winning the primary.
Andrew Cuomo, the big name former Governor, too big a name for any other moderate to compete with him. But unfortunately the big name former Governor was also embroiled in controversies. Had he not ran, I think there were two realistic possibilities: either Eric Adams would absorb the moderate vote in the primary and lose the primary but then win the general election as an independent, or more likely a younger (and more popular) high profile moderate like Ritchie Torres or Dan Goldman would've ran in the primary and won, and then won in the general election by 2021 level margins.
But Andrew Cuomo was both too strong a candidate to compete with in the primary and too weak a candidate to actually be electable. He destroyed Eric Adams' path to re-election (re-electing the incumbent is always the simplest option), and he prevented a younger less controversial high profile moderate fro
