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I am perfectly fine with this assessment of Mamdani and his speech. I think all of the separate elements of this phrase are just what we need right now...
"hard edged"
That's GREAT! This is just what we need right now. Someone who is not afraid to call a spade a spade. Someone who gets right to the crux of the matter that everyone is scared of touching. Someone not terrified of the repercussions of speaking the truth, clearly, and so anyone could understand. I'm so encouraged by Mamdani's landslide victory.
"angry"
Well, DUH! There isn't a true American in this country right now who isn't absolutely furious at this attempt of Trump to turn America into an authoritarian dictatorship. I mean, the results of this week's elections certainly bore out to be the case, as well as all the protests lately. No Kings is now the "New Cool" after this last election, to be sure.
"divisive"
Yes. The country is quite divided today. It's a rather lopsided division with the vast majority of Americans landing on the side of America's continued democracy. But it is a division, nonetheless. And it is one that needs to be spread wider and made plainer. The division between Americans and Trump following un-Americans needs to be shown starkly in all its vast contrast.
Many of those who helped Trump achieve his goal of unconstitutional domination over our government and our country with their votes are slowly coming to grips with the cataclysmic results of their actions. They are coming to grips with the fact that what Trump is doing is far from what an American president is supposed to be and do. Let alonehis failure to achieve anything that he promised them. They are waking up to the realization that his policies and executive orders are doing nothing but driving this country deep into a miasma of corruption and nihilistic governance that if it goes on much longer, we could never recover from. Every day, more and more of Trump's followers are abandoning his ranks. Because they are remembering that they are Americans, not Russians. Not North Koreans. We are Americans. That is supposed to mean something in this world.
So, this division between true Americans and the facilitators of Trump's authoritarian coup needs to be made as stark as it can be. The two sides need to be fully fleshed out and seen for what they truly are, thereby illustrating to Trump's cult members that there is another way. An American way. They don't have to blindly follow an inhumanly colored con man who is ripping them off over a cliff. They can rejoin the Americans in this country and participate in America's restoration after this cataclysmically tragic episode in our country's history.
So yes, I believe that Mamdani is just what American politics needs right now. And this is just the beginning.
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