I figured after a recent thread and seeing some posting about this stuff on a few sites, folks might be interested in the internal takes from NYC DSA folks on not pushing to primary Jeffries.
TL;DR It seems they're hoping to get a bunch of state assembly seats they think are more likely to win that would help get Zohran's policy done. And it sounds like the opposition candidate, Ossé, hasn't made any friends within NYC DSA over the last few years, leading to a lack of trust that he'll stand with DSA.
As a DSA partisan on Hexbear, you can imagine I've had a lot of conflicting opinions over how things are playing out currently. Zohran is ducking right in a lot of his messaging, and NYC DSA is up to all kinds of bullshit lately. But it's also a very exciting time to be in DSA, and as any American socialist org will tell you, a self-proclaimed socialist winning mayor of NYC with a growing national org behind him is huge.
I guess it's just nice to read what seems to be a pretty open explanation of what's going on in NYC DSA, as opposed to the usual radio silence everyone else in the org gets. I obviously still have disagreements with these folks, but at least I have a position that I can argue against.
As that thread is mentioned, I don’t mind dsa not spending resources on him, that’s whatever, priorities and money stuff, whatever, wish success them locally.
I do find incredibly revealing that aocia, (whose attachment to dsa is mainly optics driven from both sides anyway) is completely backing nationally unpopular corporatist imperialist dipshit, and see it as another sign where she is at.
Like say he fails, midterms happen with blue wave, and now she is getting behind good democracy policies, spearheaded by fucking jeffries, stellar plan (while, plausibly, they could catch some concessions in leader elections, if they (progressives) slap dems around, although force the vote already shown that as well)