Cuomo is kneecapping Dems by challenging Mamdani; he’s protecting party elites

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I am furious at the blatant, shameless move by Andrew Cuomo to challenge the actual Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani.

This is sabotage.

Cuomo and the Democratic Party elite are proving, once again, that they don’t actually believe in democracy.

They believe in control.

When the people choose someone who doesn’t kiss the asses of the establishment, someone who actually dies through experience represent renters, workers, immigrants, and the dispossessed instead of Wall Street and real estate giants, they pull out the knives.

Cuomo’s ego-fueled ploy to run as an independent is a slap in the face to every single voter who cast a ballot for Mamdani in the Democratic primary.

It’s an insult to democracy itself.

But it’s not new!

This is the same damn tactic they used in 2016 to torpedo Bernie Sanders, because Bernie, like Mamdani, was too much of an outsider, too much of a threat to their cushy status quo.

They’d rather lose to the right than let the left win.

Mamdani won. Fair and square.

And now Cuomo, an ousted former governor with a trail of misogyny and sex scandals, wants to kneecap the nominee his own party chose?

If the Democratic leadership allows this or turns a blind eye to it, they are complicit in fracturing the very unity they keep lecturing the rest of us about.

And quite frankly, that’s exactly what they’re doing. Schumer. Hakeem. The Clintons. All of them.

Enough is enough.

If the Democratic Party wants to remain relevant, it needs to actually honor its voters.

Because people are done playing nice while the elites play dirty.

You can’t scream about Trump being a threat to democracy while pulling this undemocratic bullshit yourselves.

Stand with Mamdani. Stand with the voters. Or get out of the way.