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Exhibit A: institutional refusal to endorse Mamdani.
They are gonna India Walton him
Adams and Trump literally teaming up to try beating him in the general. They don’t even try to hide it when an actual threat emerges.
It’s actually really funny, I think a lot of the anti Mamdani people were hoping that Adam’s and Coumo might hive away democratic voters and give someone else a chance, 3rd party or republican, but the republican’s didn’t even have a primary, they just picked the same dude who lost to Adams last time, and no 3rd party candidate has emerged from the wood work to rally the imaginary centrist voter base. So really they’ve just split the “the government should do nothing” voter base. Like Sliwa, Adam’s and Coumo are functionally indistinguishable on policy; just “bigger police budget, more tax breaks and deregulation, more cruelty to the minority target of the week”
I wouldn’t be surprised if we see this happen in other local and congressional races. Progressive or socialists candidates win primaries, establishment democrats tacitly endorse a 3rd party run by Their preferred looser of the primary, but instead of splitting their voter base to sabotage the nominee, they split the conservative/reactionary base.