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Cuomo's SuperPAC is getting desperate
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I'm rooting for Mamdani. He seems like a well-rounded guy. That question framing on why he wasn't vising Israel was the most cultist shit I've ever seen. He gave a good reply.
I don't agree with him that Israel has a right to exist when he was pushed on BDS during the debate.
But any candidate who passes the low low bar of "not financially or militarily supporting Israel" gets a pass.
I think responding to the question with "Israel has a right to exist as a state with equal rights" is the best way he could have phrased it. I know the preferred way for those on the left is "no state has a right to exist," but that's not a sentiment that's going to resonate with liberals, and many would see it as "scary radical wants to burn it all down."
His answer is a clever way of proposing a one-state solution without freaking people out.
Running for mayor of America's largest city as a muslim and using the word socialist, he walks a good tightrope.
Particularly in a party that fights its left flank harder than it fights fascism.
Don't bother, these people have no concept of the stranglehold that the Israel lobby has on politicians in this country.