Gillibrand Goes on Islamophobic Rant About Mamdani as Republicans Try to Denaturalize Him
Gillibrand Goes on Islamophobic Rant About Mamdani as Republicans Try to Denaturalize Him

Gillibrand Goes on Islamophobic Rant About Mamdani as Republicans Try to Denaturalize Him

The Democrat’s rant has sparked calls for her to resign over her bigoted language.
The scary part isn't the Islamaphobia. That's just because it's easy sound bites based on his name. The real scary part is how much they're trying to attack him, because a democratic socialist mayor in New York can show how shitty Republican solutions have been on solving core problems like wealth inequality. Beyond what Bernie or AOC can do as an individual member of Congress. A mayor is an executive, and new York is big. If he's not trying to line his pockets, he can do real damage to conservatives and establishment Democrats just by showing everyone there's a better way.
Exactly.
Which is why both Republicans and establishment Democrats are so desperate to malign him — because the dirty little secret of American politics is that the actual meaningful choice is between people who will work for the good of the people as a whole and people who will work only for the good of the wealthiest few. And maintaining the status quo requires stopping people from figuring out that virtually all elections come down to just two somewhat different versions of the latter type.
I've been saying exactly this for 20 years. But all people want to hear is "Are you on MY side, or are you on the OTHER side?"
Uhhhhh, no. There is no sides based on R or D. There's only sides based on $. It's a big club, and you ain't in it.
If he weren’t a democratic socialist, the establishment would love him. The ultimate neoliberal dream is a brown person who supports their policies.