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Hasan Piker on what tonight means: “If you’re an establishment Dem, who’s sat on your throne for three decades and haven’t done anything for working people, we’re coming for you.”
I really like Krystal and her commentary. But this is a total misreading of the Zohran-AOC strategy.
There were 10 candidates on the DSA slate. Zohran endorsed Claire Valdez and DAC because they ran against sitting Congressional incumbents, who would have been costly for AOC to endorse.
And AOC did the same, endorsing the NYC Assembly candidates that would have been costly for Zohran to endorse — David Orkin, Christian Celeste Tate, and Eon Huntley.
The rest of NYC DSA's slate was endorsed by one or both, except for Conrad Blackburn, the only DSA-endorsed candidate who lost. It's likely they saw Blackburn had little chance and decided to sit out.
This was a well-coordinated strategy between two of the most powerful and popular DSA elected officials to maximize DSA's chance of success.
It's what we want from socialist leaders. And with respect, just because AOC didn't inform media figures about her strategy doesn't mean she's "on the sidelines." She's fresh off helping Chris Rabb beat back Josh Shapiro's ultra-zionist sabotage campaign.
@JCMacriNBA Only reason Harper didn’t give us more issues is because Mitch Johnson wouldn’t let him. Johnson was the best defender the Knicks had on Harper!
It is possible that no US politician has ever had this level of cultural competence, charisma, and sincere warmth. Obama never touched it and JFK could not have come close
I haven’t seen a beltway meltdown like this since Biden pulled out of Afghanistan. Both are correct, both avoid sunk-cost fallacy and both are simply acknowledging objective reality rather than engaging in the blob’s preferred delusion of open-ended hostility and war profiteering