Democrats are fighting Zohran harder than they fight Trump

Friends,

If you want to understand what scares the Democratic establishment, just look at how they’ve responded to Zohran Mamdani’s victory.

Not with reflection. Not with humility. But with immediate, open racism.

In the days since Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist and state assembly member who centered his campaign on rent prices, public transit, and working-class dignity, won the New York City mayoral primary, party elites have completely shed their masks.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand went on live radio and delivered a rant so Islamophobic it sparked widespread calls for her resignation. Eric Swalwell straight up lied on cable news, falsely claiming Zohran had some mythical “statement” about Jewish people that he didn’t agree with.

They are not alone. Other members of New York’s Democratic delegation, from state legislators to Congress, have echoed these same talking points. 

Establishment Democrats are fighting Zohran harder than they’ve ever fought Donald Trump.

When candidates run on healthcare, housing, and dignity, they panic.

When fascists take over the courts and strip rights away, they draft a terse letter. 

These are the same Democrats who had full control of the federal government and couldn’t lift the minimum wage. Couldn’t codify Roe. Couldn’t pass universal child care or end the filibuster.

They fail upward and punch left every time.

Because their role is not to confront inequality. It is to manage it.

Their function in a donor-driven political system is to absorb dissent, defang it, and reroute it into safe, symbolic gestures. 

Remember this?

Movements like Zohran’s are dangerous to that model not because they are radical, but because they are popular. Because they work.

And the job of a triangulated party is not to empower that kind of momentum. It is to contain it.

But history doesn’t bend to gatekeepers. It bends to movements. 

And Mamdani’s win showed what can happen when you organize for material change and refuse to speak in the language of elite reassurance.

That’s the campaign we’re building too.

We are not running to manage decline. We are running to upend it. 

We are not asking to be let into the Democratic Party’s crumbling house. We are building something outside it—stronger, freer, rooted in solidarity and survival.

So let them talk. Let them panic. We’ll keep organizing. We’ll keep growing. And we’ll meet people where they are, with policies that actually deliver.

If you’re ready to build that kind of politics, chip in now.

In Peace and Power,

Butch Ware