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Republicans got their midterms bogeyman in Zohran Mamdani. Now comes the challenge: making the incoming New York City mayor’s brand of democratic socialism sink candidates outside his liberal bubble. They’re getting right to it. Republicans’ House campaign arm launched digital ads Wednesday morning across 49 battleground districts tying Democrats to the “socialist mayor” who “built his movement on defunding the police and abolishing ICE.”

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[–] blave@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Not just this, but the entire idea of making groceries and rent a little bit more affordable is suddenly “communism”

This is a bunch of crazy bullshit spewed by Republicans to get you scared of doing the right thing and voting for this guy

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Well it's only different from the 50's in the sense that wealth disparity is beyond that of the 1920's and the current red scare doesn't have a preceding 20yrs of socialist reforms propping up the economic conditions for the laborers.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 57 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Given the outpouring of support nationwide for Mamdani, this feels like a bold move. If they misjudge the population, this could end up providing unprecedented support for these candidates rather than scaring people away from them.

[–] youngGoku@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

Hopefully we can capture this moment in time and use the momentum to establish real progressives in high places.

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago

A vote for Bart is a vote for Anarchy!

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

abolishing ICE

Fuck yeah! Sign me up for whoever is saying that.

Republicans run straight to the lie factory instead of fixing shit they broke. Figures.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Two centrists win races for governor: crickets

One socialist wins a mayorship: "OMG! THE DEMOCRATS ARE ALL COMMUNISTS!!!"

...

[–] ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not to mention, they’ve been saying the democrats are all communists no matter who it is including Biden and Kamala so not sure what this is going to change.

It's like their parents never told them the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf

That’s probably why democrats were afraid of endorsing Mamdani.