Here’s her summary over at The DAM Digest:
The System Is Rigged—And They're Proving It in Real Time
It was a week of whiplash—where hope and horror collided in full public view.
In New York City, Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old Democratic Socialist and the son of Ugandan immigrants, pulled off a stunning upset in the mayoral primary. He defeated the disgraced Andrew Cuomo, a scandal-ridden figure backed by $25 million in billionaire Super PAC money and endorsements from the Democratic elite: Bill Clinton, Jim Clyburn, Mike Bloomberg.
The message from voters was loud and clear: we want change, not recycled predators with elite backing.
But the response from the Democratic establishment was just as revealing. Instead of embracing the victory, party leaders like Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, and Kathy Hochul refused to endorse Mamdani. The very same machine that bet on Cuomo is now quietly (and not-so-quietly) working to sabotage Mamdani’s general election.
Billionaire hedge funder Bill Ackman even vowed to spend “hundreds of millions” to destroy Mamdani’s campaign, broadcasting his fear of actual democracy on social media. This is what fear of the people looks like.
This Isn’t Just Politics. It’s Class Warfare.
The attacks on Mamdani have nothing to do with his policies being unpopular. In fact, they're the opposite—living wages, affordable housing, and healthcare are overwhelmingly supported by the public.
What Mamdani threatens is the system itself. Most recently he recited Martin Luther King Jr, “there must be a better distribution of wealth for all of God’s children in this country.” To America’s billionaire class, those are fighting words.
To protect their profits, they will destroy anyone who dares to demand fairness. They smear him with tired tropes—labeling him a terrorist sympathizer, an anti-Semite, a “radical”—the same tactics used after 9/11, during the Obama birther conspiracies, and anytime marginalized leaders rise.
As one Scott Rechler, one of the biggest landlord’s in the city said outright, New York is the “capital of capitalism.” That’s the line in the sand.
The Courts Join the Crackdown
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court continues its march toward authoritarianism.
In a recent decision the Court has sided with Trump in another 6-3 decision that would curb nationwide injunctions granted against Trump’s birthright citizenship orders. In another case Duarte v. United States, the far-right majority ruled that immigrants who re-enter the country after deportation have no right to judicial review. That’s not just cruel—it’s an unprecedented rollback of due process. It erases the basic constitutional protections millions rely on.
This is more than a deportation issue. It’s the quiet beginning of something darker: the denaturalization project. If the Court can deny rights to immigrants, what’s to stop them from targeting naturalized citizens next? From there, it’s a short slide toward revoking citizenship based on religion, race, or dissent.
This isn’t a slippery slope. It’s a coordinated descent.
Don’t Wait for Democrats to Save You
What this moment makes painfully clear is this: establishment Democrats will not save us.
They had the chance to support impeachment for Trump’s illegal airstrikes in Iran—128 of them voted against it. They had the chance to back Mamdani—they stayed silent. They had the chance to protect civil liberties—they played procedural politics.
We are in a two-front war: one against the right wing, and one against a Democratic Party too cowardly—or complicit—to stand up to it.
We Still Have Power—But Only If We Use It
The good news? The people are not done fighting. Mamdani’s win proves that. It shows that when we organize, knock doors, speak boldly, and build coalitions, we can beat back billionaire money and institutional rot.
But this fight is bigger than one candidate or one election. It’s about whether we will continue to live under a system designed to keep the ultra-rich in control—or whether we’ll take the power back.
No more settling for lesser evils. No more dancing to a tune written by billionaires. It’s time for a new song. And this time, we're writing it together.
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