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.
No worries. I'm unsure how good he will do in ny-15 bc there is a much worse but still "progressive" guy running in the dem primary who prob has a good chance of beating torres. If Andre faces him in the general it will prob be uglier and I don't see him winning.
It's one of those thing where I think dsa and psl should prob try to run like wfp(they have their own line on the ballot but it's still a dem) not because I think you can change the Dems from the inside but bc of how fptp districts bear out. Idk people a psl have put a lot of thought into it, running in seats they can't split and let a neo Nazi R win or w/e.
I think in this case DSA should get behind PSL's third party campaign. PSL is absolutely, resolutely against running on the dem ticket, while large portions (the majority?) of DSA is on board with breaking from the Dems.
Yea I get you. I'm just in the camp that it's easier to break if you already have electeds to break w you. If the squad(not aocia) was 20-30 instead of 4 members they can actually have a viable caucus. Idk a lot of people have a lot of opinions on this stuff. I'm rooting for them both over both of the aipac Dems