Posted on 11/05/2025 2:43:33 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Mamdani didn't win a policy debate. He won a personality contest.
Two mayoral elections in major cities with two candidates.
Both Omar Fateh and Zohran Mamdani followed the familiar AOC playbook of seizing their party’s nomination in low turnout primaries or in Fateh’s case, DFL conventions, against an established candidate.
Both were Islamists running on ‘free stuff’ and socialism.
Mamdani beat Cuomo in New York City while in Minneapolis, Jacob Frey appears to have defeated Fateh (with not enough of a margin, leading to the election-rigging plague that is ‘ranked choice voting’ which Mamdani also benefited from.)
The difference didn’t come down to policies, it came down to social media hype.
Mamdani kept that fake smile up the entire time and painstakingly followed the ‘people’s struggle’ handbook of pretending he was representing some electorate other than fellow Muslims and leftists. Omar Fateh tried the same routine, but it doesn’t help that he looks like a fairy tale goblin.
Smilingly only gets you so far when you look like you’re about to demand that a fairy tale queen guess your name or you’ll make off with her daughter.
But Mamdani mostly benefited from massive amounts of astroturfed social media hype. And, I hate to say this, but the Republican focus on Mamdani probably only backfired.
We’ve seen the waves of fake hype for Obama before, not to mention other radical candidates like Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul, in which a small social media campaign by radicals pumps up a candidate that otherwise no one would care about. It only works when the candidate, like Obama, has enough charisma to front it. No amount of hype could make anyone make Bernie Sanders or Ron Paul president. And the hype wasn’t enough for the Minneapolis goblin.
Had Frey been successfully ousted,...
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Well. It matters. Trump also benefits from his personality.
“Mamdani didn’t win a policy debate. He won a personality contest.”
He won the I will fix your problems by robbing the rich debate.
It will fail but He will keep it propped up till after 2026 elections.
Personality-if that’s all it takes then we’ll lose. You all know that. Those guys are not real and you know it. It’s the MSM that embraces the suck.
BJ/Obama-I rest my case.
It matters not. If they have the political skills to assume power, the danger is just as real. You all know that.
delusional young women won
Well, if he lost CNN last night, that does not bode well for him.
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