Posted on 08/11/2025 8:48:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Ben Rhodes points to Ugandan-born Democratic socialist as model for party's future direction
Ben Rhodes, a key former Obama administration official, believes the Democratic Party is "afraid of its own future" and needs to embrace the strategy of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, who identifies as a Democratic socialist.
Rhodes, who was deputy national security adviser to President Barack Obama, is perhaps best known for his advocacy of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. He has since emerged as a prominent figure in liberal media as a contributor to MSNBC and co-host of the "Pod Save The World" podcast.
His latest work is a New York Times guest essay headlined "How Short-Term Thinking is Destroying America," which suggested Democrats are reluctant to "stand behind controversial positions or abandon language that polls well but sounds hopelessly inauthentic" because they don’t want to alienate donors. "Even when presented with Zohran Mamdani’s campaign in New York — an innovative example of fresh political tactics and policies — many party leaders recoiled. The party seems — quite literally — afraid of its own future," Rhodes wrote.
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#ing Rats are squeamish about the reality of the 3rd-Worldism they’ve been incubating... would be a pleasure to force it down their throats if only it didn’t affect the rest us
PLEASE!!! Help me figure out how this can be bad for Israel, so we can alert Trump, and he can go out of his way and above and beyond to stop it.
It will be instructive to see when the SCOTUS finally tells them they don’t have the powers they wish to exercise.
My bet is they will ignore the courts and do what they want.
I don’t know what Democrats are worried about. Zoltar could be Obama’s son. They are exactly the same. Smooth talking Islamic communists from Africa.
Crap that plays in NYC don’t mean 💩 in flyover country.
There is no such thing as an Islamic communist. They are atheists.
👍 The Dems will maintain control with their giveaway programs.
Obama openly wanting his party to be more overtly communist. Occasionally, the mask slips.
IOW he is telling his fellow travelers it is time to finallybstop lying. Just start being overt communists now.
The left has been leaning more communist than socialist for years it’s just more open about it now.
That’s normal for the rats and other commies
Why?
It ain't gonna last much longer.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/08/10/former-nypd-commissioner-ray-kelly-warns-about-mamdani-as-nyc-mayor/
Mamdani is very popular, and has cleverly probed our lines for weak spots.
We need to do the same to him.
And if we defend a society where young people drown in debt, can’t get married or form families, can’t own real property or find useful work, a Mamdani clone will be President by 2032 if not before.
Dearborn? Kansas City, Milwaukee, Detroit, I think quite a few flyover areas like this Mamdani character and will embrace the views with similar wins for their politicians.
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