re: Why New Yorkers really elected Mamdani: an op-Ed that sounds right

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They’ve done everything right — the schools, the hours, the hustle — and yet they still feel stuck.

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If they are voting Mamdani, they’ve not done everything right. Full stop.

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He won because he captured something every politician should be listening to right now — a deep frustration that the system doesn’t feel fair anymore

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I actually do give this some credence. Similar to how people who want to pick apart every statement of Trump or RFK are missing the broader "vibes" that each guy is capturing. Like with RFK - sure, maybe he says some crazy stuff. But at core, he represents a voice for people who feel voiceless and as if their bodies have been used by the medical system as ATMs.

Those may be the reasons he won some support from white people. The reason that support mattered is that he got ALL of the non-whites, who are united in their racial resentment. He would have their support no matter what.

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They’ve done everything right — the schools, the hours, the hustle — and yet they still feel stuck.

Rents climb faster than salaries. Taxes eat away their paychecks. Buying a home feels impossible.

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And the answer is communism? You feel financially stressed so you vote to blow up the whole system that created more prosperity than mankind has ever known?

Sounds like their lack of judgement and intelligence may be the real issue here.

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No, the cause of this lies at the feet of both the Democrats and Republicans as both worked to increase the population of America from 250 million in 1990 to 350 million today. The new 100 million are not the babies from the 1990 Americans they are foreign imports that until Trump forced them to both the Democrats wanted (for votes) and Republicans wanted (to keep wages low). The effect of 100 million more people since 1990 is increased housing prices and lower wages.

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Spot on

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They’ve done everything right — the schools, the hours, the hustle — and yet they still feel stuck.

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Then MOVE you ignorant f-ing MORONS! If you cannot reach your goals where you currently reside, find somewhere else where you can reach those goals.

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it's exactly how Adolph Hitler rose to power

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Trump too. Tell me I'm wrong. Please.

Tech is rapidly becoming more and more pro more GOP and HB1.

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In 2019, a small group of right-wing donors rented a resort outside the 100-person town of Rockbridge, Ohio, for a summit to secure the future of the MAGA movement. They aimed to turn a singular candidate — President Donald Trump — into an enduring political coalition, with a pipeline of voters, donors and candidates that would cement a radical transformation of the GOP.

Convened by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel and JD Vance, then an investor who had written a best-selling memoir, the meeting included hedge fund heiress Rebekah Mercer, then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson and economist Oren Cass, according to two people familiar with the meeting. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private gathering, details of which have not been previously reported.

But the person in the room who would solidify the group’s ambitions was someone with a decidedly lower profile: an Arizona insurance entrepreneur and conservative media figure named Chris Buskirk. Today, Buskirk helms the Rockbridge Network, a secretive organization birthed out of the weekend gathering that has established itself as one of the most influential forces in GOP politics. Political strategists credit the close-knit network of businessmen-cum-donors with helping fuel the president’s reelection last year and propelling one of its own — Vance — into the vice presidency.

With significant funding from tech leaders, Rockbridge aims to equip MAGA to outlive Trump. The group has no website or public-facing entity, but it has assembled pollsters, data crunchers, online advertisers and even a documentary film arm. It is gearing up to deploy its arsenal in the 2026 midterms and in the 2028 presidential contest, in which many Rockbridge members hope Vance will be the nominee. The group has assembled a database with deep profiles of potential voters through nonpolitical memberships, including outdoors groups and churches, according to a person directly familiar with the organization.

Buskirk’s ties to Trump’s orbit go beyond Rockbridge. 1789 Capital, the venture capital firm he co-founded with investor Omeed Malik, focuses on what the partners call “patriotic capitalism” and now counts Donald Trump Jr. as a partner. The pair — along with administration officials and friends — recently launched Executive Branch, a $500,000-a-head membership club for Trump-supporting business leaders to hobnob in D.C.

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His book lists historical moments when elite networks moved society forward, including Florence during the Renaissance, mid-century America, and the county of Lancashire, England, during the Industrial Revolution. The Scottish Enlightenment was actually “the work of a few dozen people,” he notes, who “developed long-term friendships” at a private social club called the Select Society.

Parallels to remarkably innovative historical periods were starting to happen, he said, but “the full flourishing of America’s latent potential” was not guaranteed. “I pray that it is,” he said. “There is much to be done.”

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The Dems caused all of that though.

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But... that's why they voted for the Democratic Socialist this time.