Hate will keep us together

Last night, after the Democratic primary races in New York, Chris Hayes had Mayor Mamdani on his show ... he had endorsed three candidates from his Democratic Socialist party to run against incombents, and they all won.

Chris is a big fan of Mamdani - he's almost giddy in the video. I'm not. a fan of Mamdani. I don't like the assertion that progressive Democrats should now be thought of as "centrists" because Socialists have been added to the party. I don't like their pandering to the "young working-class male" vote with candidates like Platner.

And I especially don't like their hatred of Israel and emphasis on a foreign policy that excludes every other foreign country's actions but instead focuses on a created narrative about the one democracy in the Middle East.

They give new definitions for words like "genocide" and obsess over a group that has freely elected a terrorist regime that keeps women as second class citizens and is proud of murder, rape, and hostage-taking.

Anyway, in the video, Mamdani's hatred of Israel is hard to miss, and he says a lot of stuff that is just not true. What's depressing is that I don't think anyone cares about that. As a political party, it seems we have decided to take a page from the Republican playbook .... we will let hate be the glue that binds us and propels us to supposed victory.