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Blue No Matter Who?: Jeffries Slammed for 'Gutless' Refusal to Endorse Zohran Mamdani
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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2025
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Mamdani is a populist and is basically a left wing Trump.
People are unhappy and easily manipulated into supporting someone that just says the popular internet things. There's also the assumption that he hates the same ethnic group that's it's popular for his base to hate. See the other comments in this thread saying Hakeem Jeffries not endorsing Mamdani is probably something to do with the Jews.
There were many Republicans that were "never Trumpers" and refused to endorse him. A few even stuck with it. We know what can happen when someone's support is based around policies based on internet memes mixed with racist conspiracy theories.
The question is whether Mamdani is a true believer or just saying the things he does to get elected. If he's a true believer and actually implements the half baked internet meme based policies, it will be a disaster. Much like how Trump's dumbass policies are a disaster.
Wouldn't be a good political move to endorse a politician that winds up creating a mess of things.
Yeah, I guess we should just keep electing the same corrupt losers who promise nothing, and do less.
Zohran is offering real changes, when everybody else seems to be perfectly comfortable with business as usual in MAGA Nazi America. Maybe they'll work, maybe they won't, and more likely it will be a mix of the two, but at least he wants to try something different than the usual losing strategies.
Trump offered real change. That wasn't a good thing. Turns out, your changes need to be good
And that's why Mamdani won, he wasn't promising vague platitudes. He was promising very specific actions that are entirely within the power of the mayor's office to enact. A lot of his agenda will simply be signing legislation passed by the City Council that Mayor Adams vetoed. He convinced people to vote for him because he not only had a ideas, but a very specific and tangible plan on how to achieve them. And Mamdani's changes are good.
$30 an hour minimum wage is peak politician fake promise
What made you come to that conclusion? That's a perfectly fair minimum wage for a place as expensive as NYC. And it could be passed by the city council and signed by the mayor. Adams just vetoed a bill trying to raise the app worker minimum wage to $22/hour or so. $30 is only 1/3 more than this, and Mamdani proposed implementing it over several years. I think you may just be suffering from jealousy, and ignoring that this is in the context of NYC, where $60k/year is not a lot of money.