AIPAC Panics After Zohran Mamdani’s Election Sweep
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The episode discusses the success of progressive candidates in New York City elections and the reaction from AIPAC and the Democratic establishment.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.usefulidiotspodcast.com Subscribe for the full, hour-long interview at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here: Subscribers also get our Friday Free-for-All: On this week’s show we look at the Mamdani Sweep in New York City where progressive, populist, pro-Palestine candidates, backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, won important elections across the board in a huge rebuke to AIPAC and Israel. As AIPAC and the entire Democratic establishment freak out about this successful insurgency, we speak with journalists Ross Barkan and Liza Featherstone about what went right for the left and how progressives can use this momentum to take back more power. Useful Idiots: What’s your one-sentence takeaway from the elections? Ross Barkan: It was a great night for Zohran Mamdani and he is emerging as the new political boss of New York politics. Liza Featherstone: I wondered whether the left should have gone even bigger. Zohran won every single race that he endorsed and DSA won almost all of them. None of their incumbents were taken out and almost all their challengers won. If you’re not losing more, are you really trying hard…
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