Key to the MSNBC critique of the Republican Party in the Trump Era has been the implication that if Democrats ever nominated an insane person, they would stand on principle and put country over party. On Friday’s edition of All In, Chris Hayes proved that to be a pack of lies as he demanded Democrats who have “said really vile things” about New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani fall in line because all Mamdani wants is to make life more affordable.
While most people were having fun with their 4th of July celebrations, Hayes was doing stand-up comedy by pretending Mamdani’s bumper sticker slogans about affordability should be treated the same as his actual policy proposals of high and racially-motivated taxes, rent control, government-run grocery stores, or his history of wanting to seize the means of production:
Even some establishment Democrats have refused to back their party's choice or said really vile things about him, despite the overwhelming enthusiasm for his candidacy here in New York. But if there's one thing Mamdani has demonstrated over the course of this campaign so far is he's pretty good at just kind of sticking to his principles and message discipline. He doesn't bow down in the face of pressure, but then he keeps pivoting back to the center of what he campaigned on, which is affordability. And that is exactly what a lot of Democrats, again, across the ideological spectrum, have been both talking about and are looking for right now.
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