‘It’s disgusting’: Top Democratic donors rant about Mamdani’s primary win

“With respect to the Jewish communities that I represent, I think our nominee is going to have to convince folks that he is prepared to aggressively address the rise in antisemitism in the city of New York, which has been an unacceptable development,” Jeffries said on ABC’s This Week.

i seriously hope hakeem jeffries looses whatever elections he tries to run in.

As far as I’ve seen thus far, Mamdani:
has never espoused an antisemitic opinion
has affirmed his commitment to ensuring that Jewish New Yorkers are protected from heinous antisemitic attacks, and also has condemned the attack against Israeli embassy staffers in DC
has high-profile Jewish allies and backers for his campaign
has condemned Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7th in very clear and direct terms
stated that Muslims and Jews in New York can be an example to the world in how they communicate and get along with each other
is not running to be mayor of Israel
Also, Jeffries sucks.
I think it’s high time we take over the Democratic Party and drive these dinosaurs out, with pitchforks if need be.
- The Democratic Party cannot be taken over. It is not a democratic institution. You could have 70% of elected Democrats agreeing with you and being variations on Mamdani and "party leadership" wouod still be outside your hands and they would still be working against you and there would be nothing you could do to advance your position in the party. It is a private, bourgeois institutional governed by ita donors and those donors' supplicants.
  More practically, what you could hope for is entryism and then a split. That is the basic claimed premise by DemSocs in DSA who argue for running as Dems. Unsurprisingly, this is a Trotskyist tactic and basically never works. But trying and failing in a very public way may still be a boon for radicalization and growing our ranks.
  But only with discipline (or luck)! The Dems will try to coopt everything appealing about DemSocs without stepping on the toes of donors. And that cooption begins with Mamdani himself, who will be constantly pressured to soften his stances and be more lib. DSA has zero discipline whatsoever, so with someone like Mamdani one would have to depend on luck, i.e. just this one guy being principled. This is the DSA way and it is why they eat shit in 90% of their electoralism, they back candidates with no vetting and usually provide no support. But maybe they got lucky with this one guy.
- The DNC is a private organization, it can't be taken over on a basis that is against the wishes of the owners short of first controlling the government, which won't happen. There is no taking over the Democratic Party except as successors in their disgusting project. It's good that we have people like Mamdani trying to help people, but what makes him useful is just as much the demonstration that the party is a dead end.
- At what point is association with the Democrats a detriment to achieving the political objectives of the socialist project?
  Not trying to start an argument just interested in your opinion
- it’s high time we take over the Democratic Party
  were you living under a rock between 2016 and 2024
I somehow doubt these ghouls would be happy if anyone were to actually address the rise of antisemitism by making it illegal to conflate Judaism with the genocidal actions of an apartheid entity
address the rise in antisemitism
i.e., lock up students who participate in pro-Palestinian rallies
Even though he talked for a really long time today? I mean, not Cory Booker long, but still really long time: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/us/politics/hakeem-jeffries-house-speech-magic-minute-trump-bill.html
- more performance theater from the democrats.

it's disgusting how he's being treated by his own party, right?

Gillen argued that Mamdani has promised voters “free everything” but has no “real economic plan to pay for it, other than raising taxes.”

That IS a plan to pay for it, and it's no doubt why people voted for him, because they want you rich ghouls to give something back for a change and slightly improve the conditions for poor people in the city that made you wealthy. They really are just threatening people with a good time.

Fuck these ungrateful bastards.
The working class regularly votes away their medicare and everyone wants to give it all to the rich. No one cares that the working class can’t afford it. The working class just takes it on the chin, no problem.
“HoW aRe YoU gOiNg To PaY fOr It!”
Oh, I won’t porky will. Time that digusting glutton learned to go without. The pig doesn’t need it.

The word "antisemitism" is starting to lose meaning. I hope it doesn't swing the other way where actual antisemitism gets tossed out with the bathwater, but we're hitting a point of absurdity with the argument that being pro-human rights for Palestinians or critical of Israel is evidence of antisemitism. It'll be interesting to see what happens between now and the election. The establishment is going to spend a lot of money trying to paint Mamdani as a radical jihadist. Whether it works or not, it's going to contribute to the erosion of the impact of baseless antisemitism accusations. He's going to be campaigning on transit and cost of living, and if the response to that is "he wants to kill all the Jews!!" then there's a good chance he's going to look like the more reasonable party.

This "swing" has already happened with Zionist attacks and erasure on Jewish people support of Palestine etc
Israeli government and the IDF are two of the most anti semitic organizations in the world currently.

The fact that in the US you can openly be a political "top donor", trying to influence politics in your favor via naked corruption, then bitch about it when you haven't rigged the game enough to get exactly what you want and still leave the house without getting killed tells you everything you need to know

"Democrats" whining about the democratic process. How 'bout that.

When they haven't had a Democratic Primary apply Democracy since at least as far back as 2008?
The D in DPRK is also "Democratic". But when they have nothing but "Kims" leading ever, and for life? I have to question if that word is applied in the same way we understand it.
- The DPRK is actually democratic though, did you mean to compare them to the comprador bourgeois dictatorship of “south Korea”?
- Yea! What are we, a bunch of Asians?
  I dislike this whataboutism, this shibboleth, that must be stated before critiquing the Democratic party.
- in the same way we understand it.
  we
  go fuck yourself, liberal
- Difference is the DPRK has elections for these things
- They did the thing!

Top Democratic Bribers are disgusting.

all my apes gone