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No, the people they're complaining about are neoliberals...
The "Democratic Establishment" is the chair of the DNC. And he's a big fan of Mamdani
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dnc-chair-on-the-path-to-winning-back-voters-and-lessons-democrats-can-learn-from-mamdani
What about Hakeem Jeffries? Is he the establishment?
No? The party apparatus and the party establishment are, in fact, different things. As long as the neolibs are the face of the party, and until they fuck off to the other side of the moon, they're the party establishment. They're the people who actually run policy and have clout with the electorate. DNC leadership can affect the composition of the establishment through its control of funding, but it's not the establishment.
I mean, the DNC chair is part of the establishment. You’ve also got folks like governors and the heads in the House and Senate.
So it would be more accurate to say that it’s some of the DNC rather than the implicit “all” in that sentence.
And the “establishment” in the Democratic Party is the power players like Schumer and Pelosi, the DNC chair answers to them. That he is positive about Mamdani and is still allowed to be the DNC chair says more about his lack of real power than the actual stance of the party.
Definitely saving this for future use, but I don't think pointing out that the DNC chair supports Mamdani makes this commenter a bootlicker.
I swear to god this is Ken Martin's sock puppet account
The same DNC chair who got hoag fired because the media liked hoag more than him? And supported keeping fossilized Dems over bringing in more progressive candidates? I think his actions speak louder than his praise of Mamdani successful campaign.
The one who put it to a committee vote, and then a full DNC vote?
You know that right? The voting members of the DNC (who had just elected Hoag and Martin) voted to redo the election because the prior DNC didn't follow election rules.
Do you know why Hoag didn't run again? Because he would have won.
He had been loudly saying for months he didn't expect to win and wanted to do a PAC instead. So when he got a way to dip out, he did it and made a huge scene to boost the PAC he said he's going to start.
What election has happened since Martin be ame chair besides Mamdani's primary? Who was more progressive than Mamdani that you wanted him to support?
Me too...
Like the decade he spent running Minnesota.
It’s actually Hogg