I found this today on a Facebook group which is pro-Democrats, under the comment: "If the Democratic Party is to have a future (currently an open question), this is the future it must embrace.
Else, the tarpits await.” It may only be Trump-adjacent, but relevant to these threads, I think.
Quote:
In November 2025, the day after Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral election, I postulated he represented the worst fears of the old order made flesh:
“New York City is not just another municipality; it’s a sovereign-scale entity. Its population surpasses 38 states. Its metropolitan GDP trails only Texas and California.
It is, by any metric, a small country masquerading as a city.
If democratic socialism — housing reform, public banking, equitable taxation — functions here, it obliterates the myth that such governance can’t work at scale. The fear isn’t ideological. It’s empirical. Because if Mamdani can keep the lights on, reduce homelessness, and maintain economic growth without catering to Wall Street, then the capitalist gospel collapses under its own dead weight.
What terrifies the establishment isn’t failure. It’s feasibility.
If it works in New York, there’s no reason it can’t work in Nebraska. If it works in Queens, it can work in Kansas City. And once proof exists, belief becomes irrelevant. The ship of democracy, fully refitted, will keep sailing — and no one can claim it isn’t American.
Last week, Speaker of the house Mike Johnson said the quiet part into a loudspeaker:
“Mamdani is a big issue here in the hall of Congress. Why are we focusing on New York? Because it’s a bellwether for the rest of the nation. You have to ensure that it doesn’t happen in your city in your town your state.”
Unquote.
It is by someone who lives in Brooklyn, called Jackie Summers, more of whose writings you can find on Substack, as per the link.