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I knew this was coming lol
This video's whole thing here is that there is a consulting agency ("Fight Agency"), which formed earlier this year and who Mamdani and Platner both seem to have hired, with one single person who worked on Fetterman's campaign (and one who worked on Bernie Sanders's 2016 campaign, i.e. not a Democrat and challenging the existing Democratic establishment). They seem to be saying, not that the agency is one part of all these candidates' strategy, but that they are the ones in the driver's seat of all these campaigns who have hired them, in order to advance a sinister Democratic plot to run fake leftists in the election so they will siphon off support for real leftists who you should be voting for instead presumably (no suggestions are provided).
So... these shadowy Democratic fake consultants secretly funded and organized Bernie Sanders's campaign in 2016, because the Democrats loved the fuck out of that happening and they really wanted that primary challenge to take place to collect a lot of support from leftist voters, so they could trick them into voting for their secretly-establishment candidate. Who was Bernie Sanders. It was all part of the plan we all saw play out.
There's also a good helping of wild factual exaggeration. One good example is at 4:08: "while simultaneously doing PR for Graham Platner in the wake of it being revealed that he's a neo-Nazi with SS Tokenov tattoo on his chest." HE'S NOT A FUCKING NEO NAZI. No one is actually claiming he is a Nazi, that I have seen, they're just freaking out over the tattoo and leaving the reader to connect the dots that having this type of death's-head tattoo probably means he got it on purpose because he's a Nazi / he should have known / he definitely knew it was a Nazi symbol even if he's not a Nazi / well I don't know but it sure SOUNDS fishy and so on. It is kettle logic and feels-based character assassination which is the bread and butter of American politics at this point.
I've seen BadEmpanada do this before. I never heard of the guy until a week or two ago, but they seem to be the source of people saying Graham Platner was a prison guard at Abu Ghraib, apparently by taking one random line from one random interview and spinning it out into a wild exaggeration of what it actually says so they can toss a big bucket of shit in his direction.
Anyway, I think you can expect a lot more of this as actually progressive candidates are gaining a little traction now. We're going to see a whole bunch (a whole bunch) of super forcefully presented stuff about how you definitely shouldn't be voting for them, what's the worst that could happen, in fact if you do vote for them then you're to blame for (from 36:55) "millions of fucking dead non-Americans" and you don't care.
OP: Okay, so say Mamdani's a fake. Who should we be supporting? Who should we help break into the establishment instead?
On your point about what to expect, I expect we'll predominately see articles about all the things Mamdani doesn't accomplish as well as any concessions he makes operating in a system HEAVILY skewed against his policy goals, and very little about what he actually does accomplish. These articles will come from virtually every source, serve to divide any base that exists left of right, and both discredit and dissuade future candidates.
I hope otherwise, but the pattern has historical precedent.