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This might not resonate in this community, but I doubt a gun control candidate could win the Presidency of the United States.

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It's not 2018 anymore, the NRA doesn't have any money to make guns an election issue, and America will have way bigger problems than guns, trans people and abortion in 2028.

the Russians aren't donating to the NRA, they can give money straight to Trump via his crypto coin, merch, etc.

Anyone can win the presidency.

What? You mean like Clinton, Obama, and Biden, the three most recent Democratic presidents?

60% of Americans think gun laws should be more strict. Only 12% think they should be less strict. Source: https://news.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns.aspx

As is, the only side capitalizing on the anti-Trump sentiment are the extreme left Bernie/Mamdani candidates. The democrats need someone sane.

The problem is you’ve built an economy that rewards narcissism and attention whoring. Of course you aren’t going to get sane, intelligent politicians.

Bernie/Mamdani are not extreme left. Further left than liberals for sure, but no where close to extreme left.

Mamdani is an outright, explicit Communist. He is solidly left, and there is no real debate about that.

And let's be clear: maybe NYC needs that, but pretending that he represents anything in the US liberal mainstream is a joke.

Is he? I thought he'd always claimed to be a democratic socialist. What has he said or done that makes him a communist? I only see a lot of other people labelling him as one as a lazy adhom.

It's not communism to support public-owned public services, even public-owned competitive services where no commercial competition exists. Capitalism in tight spaces, creates monopolies and market quirks that harm consumers, harm renters, harms tourists. These harms are toxic to NYC. He's right to address them.

He is a democratic socialist. I didn't say he was liberal. I said he wasn't extreme left.

*To expand, Mamdani is moderate left. Extreme left, at least here in the states, would be actual communists and anarchists.

Like Joe Biden? Pro-cop, anti-union DA who deported people more aggressively than Trump?

Or Kamala Harris, who doubled down on support for Israel's genocide, said she wanted the most lethal military in the world, and courted Bush era neocons?

What does a "sane" Democrat look like and why do I suspect it resembles a Republican in all but name?

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