NYC Mayor Mamdani's candidates prevail with bold ideas that Democrats say they can win on - The 11th Hour - MS NOW

[Rhiannon12866]

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is celebrating key wins in Tuesday’s Congressional primaries, which saw three of his endorsed candidates come out victorious. And Fmr. Rep. Max Rose (D-NY) says Democrats can unify around the kind of bold ideas those progressive candidates ran on: “it’s not something we should be scared of as a party.” - Aired on 06/23/2026.

[creeksneakers2]

1. We can't win on socialism in most places

And where we do the Republicans will smear us all with it. https://www.newsweek.com/how-popular-is-socialism-what-polls-show-as-democrats-condemn-it-11090485

The people pushing this don't give a damn if we lose.

[DemocracyForever]

2. The same pro GOP rubish the media has pushed for years

Dems efforts to help real people with issues like affordability, having clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, earning a living wage, being able to afford to buy a home are called "socialism" but the GOP's big tax cuts for billionaires and big corporations and GOP controlled SCOTUS allowing unlimited campaign contributions from billionaires and big corporations to buy elections are perfectly fine. We the people are on to this hypocrisy.

[creeksneakers2]

4. I'm not the one calling those things Socialism

And its not the billionaires either. It Mamdani and the people who call themselves "progressives." You are not "the people." You are part of a minority of them. Call them something else.

[DemocracyForever]

7. Another case of pro GOP media

helping the GOP by attacking policies that actually help real people while they ignore the fascism the GOP is trying to force on our country.

[creeksneakers2]

8. Media or not

People don't like socialism those kooks in NYC are hurting the Democrats at a time when they they are the only thing that stands between us and total Fascism.

[DemocracyForever]

3. The article you site is from 11/25

Things have changed dramatically since then with Trump's unconstitutional tariffs and illegal and unconstitutional Iran war driving up the cost of everything, Trump's taking government stakes in a number of big companies (this follows in Hitler's footsteps), Trump's shredding of the constitution, Trump's attacks on blue cities like Minneapolis, Trump's hatred of immigrants and the list goes on.

In addition, the democratic grass roots is fed up with the Dem establishment's refusal to stand up to the anti democracy, anti working people, anti democracy GOP by turning the page and going along to get along. This Democratic establishment strategy has brought our country to the brink of becoming a Nazi dictatorship. It's time for this failed strategy to end.

[creeksneakers2]

5. I'm very angry when those lies are told about Democrats.

They are doing all the can and those lies hurt us at the polls and in fundraising. Tell me a reasonable thing Democrats could be doing but aren't? So far the people telling that lie either haven't been able to answer at all or they suggest some lethally unpopular progressive idea like defunding the police. The grass roots is turning against us because they keep being lied to by people who call themselves "progressives."

The people should be turning against Republicans and TOWARD Democrats. The far lefties who made us lose in 2,000 and 2016 are working on doing it again. And this time the result will be full blown Fascism and not fair elections every again.

Show me a poll with widespread support for socialism if you think its changed.

[DemocracyForever]

6. Dem grassroots don't see leadership fighting back

against Trump/GOP and they're mad about it. This grass roots dissatisfaction runs far and wide and its why we're beginning to see dem incumbents starting to lose primaries. Leadership's go along to get along strategy of the past 25 years has brought our country to the brink of becoming a Nazi dictatorship. The Nader/Putin puppet Stein crowd have an agenda that's separate from the dem grass roots that's also hurting dems overall.

[creeksneakers2]

9. Those people in the grass roots are being deceived by progressives.

Democrats have done all they can.