“Just the sheer animosity and the insane amount o finance and whatnot that went into trying to stop this one guy who likes:
universal child care
free buses
He’s a mayor - no foreign policy in anyway for like a mayor”
“Brad Lander is a liberal Zionist. The fact that Brad Lander campaigned with him during the primary is the reason he won the primary.”
“We cannot discount the fact that liberal Zionism is the mainstream position in America, if not far-right Zionism. So the fact that he was like, I'm pro-Palestinian, but lots of liberal Zionists literally campaigned for him. And like celebrities and stuff, that disarmed that community in some way.
And I actually just read on Bluesky, there's this, an Israeli professor who's based in California, who I follow, he works on taxation policy. That's irrelevant to this point, but he was like, I just had to have a conversation with my family back in Israel, how I would prefer an anti-Zionist one to a sexual predator for mayor. And it's like, you're forcing them to make that choice, and you're winning as a result, instead of, you know, what is it that some of the pro-Palestinian left is doing right now”
From The Fire These Times: 208/ What Mamdani's Victory Means, Nov 11, 2025
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fire-these-times/id1503094935?i=1000736255453&r=473
