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You raise some valid points but I don't know what you're talking about with mamdani. I am not familiar with what you're referring to there but it does strike me as odd that one of the few names you picked to criticize is literally the furthest-left nationally-known voice, probably in American history.
I've been mentioning him because of how far left he has been or supposed to be. Sorry I've been digging at him, it would have been more critical of right wing Democrats if it wasn't for the capitulation Mamdani himself pulled.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/ag-letitia-james-just-stood-up-for
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-new-yorkers-deserve-better
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/its-time-for-mayor-mamdani-to-live
https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/19/mamdani-budget-parks-libraries/
https://thehill.com/homenews/5766052-trump-mamdani-housing-plan/ (partnering with Trump is the scariest part of his capitulation, considering we know about how authoritarian and fashy he is)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/21/donald-trump-zohran-mamdani-meeting
(Warning: the next few links involve Bad Empanada, he might be wrong about these, but I've admittedly been watching him a lot so he's the first I think of when looking up the zionist stuff)
https://youtu.be/L7dWps5gkZs
https://youtu.be/FJDbQfS6Xxs
I will say that perhaps he's playing the long game, whether we're talking the major issues like the trans and zionist bits, where you have to look palatable to voters or to Trump or to the establishment, but first off, voters follow where the radicals go, and are happy to hear some give a shit about something, and trying to ally with Trump or the establishment seems suspect because those two groups do not want socialism to win no matter what. You just lose things.
The craziest bit too is while every Democrat seems at best very wishy washy about being anti zionist, the fascists have blatant and consistent critics of Zionism like Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, but it the version of anti-zionism that the elites and establishment can get behind, which is actually anti-Semitic screeds about Jewish conspiracy theories rather than genuinely being against the genocides in the Middle East. It's just this and the trans stuff (oh my fucking God the fact Harris and other Dems thought not talking about trans people and some conservative Texas ones thought we should call trans girls men is fucking insane) is making me feel black pilled about America ever getting out of where it's at. 😭😭😭
Tl;dr: Mamdani depressed me so much because I believed so much in him because how far left he was supposed to be and is, and I cited stuff and then reflected on how it seems like fascists can do a better job at talking about Palestine than anti-zionists can, because they do it in the elite backed way by blaming Jews instead of seeing Israel as an American colonial project.