She also says Americans are “losing jobs to visas”. That’s indulging her constituency and the GOP bases’s nativism. I mean maybe let’s pump the breaks a bit.

Should I be seeing any difference I’m not seeing in Whitmer saying tariffs were good because the unions in her state like tariffs and Mamdani saying the guy who ran on “Haitian immigrants are eating your pets” actually wants to help struggling people? Again, whatever works but still…

The he owes me 600 dollars stuff happened pretty soon as he took office and the cnn reporter who got fired for saying it was exciting when he was about to enter the White House probably earliest signs iirc.

Oh yeah good point

There were people literally dancing in the street in various cities but in media centric spaces it was weird and conflicted because they predicted it wouldn’t happen.

Although you know we might just need to give this a couple days because Trump is gonna say some crazy awful shit again and Mamdani will denounce him for it.

Yeah I hadn’t thought about that aspect of it tbh

No that’s a stretch, I liked Mamdani doing this but circumstances were only different in the sense that Trump was nicer to him. In each case he invited both and they each pledged to work with him for theirs constituents l. It’s fine to just acknowledge that political priors are determining reactions

Remember that stupid Nurses union lady who thought Melania was gonna convince Trump to do M4A?

ah yes, the thing that makes me a “cultured elite” is i am not a big enough rube to believe that trump is some bottom-up populist phenomenon bsky.app/profile/zacs...

*Mamdani

Ehhh not really. If you track right wing influencers and media you would see that there is zero negative polarization into actually liking Mandani. Obama and Hillary complimenting him means way more than a Schumer non endorsement and so the “leadership hate” is kind of over exaggerated imo.

I think the defeated primary challenger staying in the race to split the vote is a significant factor though.