Politico reports that at a Hamptons fundraiser last Saturday, Cuomo told his well-heeled supporters that, contrary to all available evidence, he could win the New York mayoral race as an independent—because he was likely to have the implicit support of President Donald Trump.
The imperative of defeating Mamdani justified the new coalition Cuomo is trying to create of his die-hard loyalists (who are Democrats) with Trump Republicans.
Some of that latter group might be tempted to back Curtis Sliwa, the actual GOP nominee in the race. Cuomo told these donors, “We can minimize [the Sliwa] vote, because he’ll never be a serious candidate. And Trump himself, as well as top Republicans, will say the goal is to stop Mamdani. And you’ll be wasting your vote on Sliwa.” Cuomo went on to emphasize that he’d be a mayor who could find common ground with Trump:
Well the latter isn’t going to happen without the former, right? I mean that seems pretty obvious, but I’m starting to think maybe it’s not.
If the assumption is you want policies enacted; who’s “your party”? Is it not the Democrats? Who, then?
No definitely not a pro capitalist imperialist party that represents the bourgeois. No that is not my party. If you support them despite not following “policies” you claim to support you aren’t going to "move them ".
I couldn’t disagree more, but more to the point what party do you support?
Or if you don’t support a party, what’s the big idea to get progressive policies enacted?