The sweep also sends an undeniable message to establishment Democrats in Washington, including House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who campaigned against Mamdani’s candidates and lost. Mamdani and his slate were openly fighting for dramatic change on key issues, with Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza and affordability chief among them.
The first person on the panel, wearing two monocols and a rainbow progress lapel pin, “well you see, obviously we all want universal healthcare, but the reality is, we just cant afford it” as they say this, they sign another pledge to send billions of bombs to lebanon via isreal and just after an intern crawls in and delivers a bar of gold right in front of everyone as the camera pans to the next democrat who then rags about how progressives are just self defeating losers while he unawarely stands on the neck of a protestor and vocally wonders why they always complain so much as he twists his heel into the protesters larynx, the third democrat on the panel has fallen asleep - once a civil rights champion in the 1830’s, their age has crept up on them, but their district still seems to keep voting their coffin in regardless
When they say “we can’t afford it” they really mean “10% of our GDP comes from health care and we don’t want to take that kind of economic hit.”