Yes. We are talking about dumbasses that like the ACA, but hate "Obamacare" - which apparently has "death panels"....

That's definitely true for many Republicans, but I think a successful term as mayor for Zohran has potential to really change things for the Democrats. If, after hearing from establishment Democrats for decades that the only way we can change things is so incrementally, not only can we not make progress, but we actually have to accept going backwards pretty often, you have a mayor who delivers some fairly sweeping changes, it could open the eyes of many Democrat voters to the lies that they've been fed by party leadership to excuse themselves for sitting on their hands while things fall apart around them.

The oligarchs can't win on the merits of their policies, so they desperately resort to identity politics to try to divide us.

There might be some things the mayor could do, like joining boycotts, etc.

Certainly he can stop or interfere with the crackdown on pro-palestinian dissent in the city which has been extreme under Adams and Trump.

A politician's position on an issue far outside the scope of the office they're seeking doesn't usually influence my vote

You're probably the minority on that

I think they are used to the old world in which being able to intentionally conflate being anti-Israel with "antisemitic" and have that bullshit being swallowed by most people.

The days of them being gatekeepers on that in particular are long, long gone. It is and always was complete horseshit to label anyone critical of Israel running an open-air prison "antisemitic", but for most of my lifetime, that was just de rigueur. If anyone were to question it, you'd have most of the left and the right coming down on them.

I think the more that MSM continues to try to cling that, the more they will lose credibility on lots of other things. At least some of them now seem to recognize that most of us think their "both sides" framing is complete horseshit and it's become nearly a punchline, finally, after all these years. They will probably cling to that even harder than the Israel gatekeeping they do. Related, I think they'll really resist calling the lying liars on the right out on their lies and invective the most.

As an example, I constantly see most of them not even blink when a prominent Republican sits there and talks about the "Democrat Party". Anyone in media must know this is an intentional and constant slur and yet, they don't call them out on it. I'd like to see them sitting there and not correcting the Republicans and asking why they INSIST on this constant insult taken as nearly the same punchline as "both sides" framing is right now and start to change their behavior. They have been letting the Republicans do this for decades and they know full well what is going on, and do nothing. I'm so sick of that. It's no small thing, it's a corollary to the "both sides" framing that is so harmful to our nation - letting Republicans sit there and insult most of the country as well as lie brazenly and not get called out on it as to what they are doing....

NYPD has offices all around the globe. Because... 9/11 or something.