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Travis Mushett
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Film professor at Fordham & Marymount Manhattan Host of The Haunted Screen podcast: https://www.hauntedscreenpod.com/ Life is Ephemeral, Old Posts Occasionally Cleared
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Canceled my sub a few weeks back. You don’t have to pay a publication to insult you, even if they still publish some impt work.
The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody.

Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.
Opinion | Mamdani’s Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think
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Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June.

It’s louder & clearer tonight.
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This physical courage is what is needed to save our republic.
“You’re all TRAITORS to your country!”
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Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."
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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
Honestly, this is prob an under-discussed factor in the rise of the DSA.
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
I live in Jeffries’ district and would happily vote for a challenger to both.

But from a public perception angle, it’s inside baseball to differentiate the DNC from House & Senate party leadership—congressional Dems have the power to vote in a Popular Front if they want to.
Very glad the DNC itself is Team Mamdani, but it’s obtuse to act like there’s no issue when the literal party leaders in both House and Senate have been hostile to Zohran.

This is a problem Schumer and Jeffries could’ve solved months ago. Disingenuous to blame online shitposters for the division.
It's annoying to keep having to point this out, but the actual DNC has been behind Mamdani ever since he won the primary, which you wouldn't know by reading some posts on here.
HAVE YOU VOTED YET? 🇺🇸
The mechanism is voting out bad party leadership
Vote blue no matter who, except no, not like that… how do you do kids??… no, it’s the children who are wrong…
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?

Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
Fair. Though seeing war crimes in Halloween decorations may speak less to a tender heart than a haunted conscience, but a haunted conscience is def better than none at all!
Yeah, I appreciate some Bulwark writers too. Fukuyama and Kristol were both pro-Iraq War conservatives—think Fukuyama soured on that strain first, but Kristol’s ultimately evolved more.
Am not familiar with the LC connection, but he was just on the Bulwark podcast this week carping about campus activism around Gaza
I appreciate the charitable spirit, but feels precious for an architect of the neocon movement to moralize about Halloween decorations 🤷‍♂️
Does 20 decades still count as a few?
Feel like these cubes want me deported.
The GOP base doesn’t feel like their pols see them as a problem to solve.

Dem base does. With reason.
Could be wrong, but I do trust that Zohran won’t throw the NYPD at us when it’s our turn in the Sauron eye of ICE, whoever he’s saying he’ll keep on.
Trump could rhetorically moderate on abortion like Obama could rhetorically moderate on gay marriage—both effectively signaled trustworthiness to their party bases.
Yggy types demand the faith of progressives while simultaneously throwing overboard anything that doesn’t feel immediately expedient to them—trans rights, immigrant rights.

Trust can’t be demanded or it’s not trust.
The fact Obama had been anti-war gave him leeway too—he could say he opposed gay marriage, and the Left (Progressive Left, if not Hard Left) trusted that it was a tactical lie.
Been thinking about this in relationship to Yglesias types whining that the Right gives Trump more room to maneuver than the Left gives Dems.

Difference is obvious: Trump has EARNED their trust. “Dems” writ large haven’t earned ours.

Zohran has. www.cnn.com/2025/10/26/p...
Mamdani takes a risk, courts NYPD Commissioner Tisch in public without certainty she will take the job | CNN Politics
One of the most high-profile job interviews in New York City politics and government appears to be playing out in the public eye.
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