@peterawolf TBH I actually feel some sympathy for Platner right now in that a bunch of lefty consultants convinced him to run (for a job he has no qualifications for and probably wouldn’t like) and now his life is being picked apart.
@nobodyknows2322@notjeromepowell And TBF part of the issue in NYC is that the DSA / leftist types are tapping into the fact that the NY Dem political establishment IS sclerotic, frequently corrupt, and has little organic support beyond old political machines.
@nobodyknows2322@notjeromepowell He’s mostly running a normie admin (staffed by mainstream Dems and wonks, giving a fairly free hand to Tisch on policing and generally mostly YIMBYish housing policy) but leaning harder into the DSA / Pro-Palestine symbols and politics.
@AGLabBear@thebeltwayagent Yeah dk when he worked in DC but I noticed a broad shift away from wonks (who tbf had their own blindsights) towards activists (and would-be activists).
@InlandCaGuy@BadassIntensity@gldivittorio I mean throughout the 2011-12 cycle, his approvals were in the mid-40s. Which seemed bad at the time but in hindsight fairly good. (Given longer term trends in political approval.)
@gauravsabnis Genuinely ruining travel, can’t go to any famous site nowadays without hordes of would-be influencers posing, doing dances, taking up space or monopolizing views.
@Superninfreak@thebeltwayagent@conorsen … obviously true for a lot of women and LGBT people too, but the end result is people working in politics are a lot more “mission-driven” and less careerist than 10-20 years ago.
@Superninfreak@thebeltwayagent@conorsen Re gender, I also think economic shifts since mid-2010s have affected things, working in politics was frankly “cool” for a lot of Obama-era men, but growth of tech and private sector salaries has drawn a lot of ambitious type A’s (and disportionately straight men)…