Former President Barack Obama suggested on “Pod Save America” on Thursday that Democrats should welcome socialists as integral to their coalition.
Democratic Socialist New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani was projected to have won his race by a significant margin on Tuesday. Obama said on the podcast episode, which was posted to YouTube on Friday, that Democrats should not implement “litmus tests” and that Mamdani was “part of a vision for the future.”
“Tuesday was nice, but we’ve got a lot of work to do. And your task is going to be not to impose litmus tests,” Obama said. “We had [Democratic Virginia Gov.-elect] Abigail Spanberger win and we had Zohran Mandani win and they are all part of a vision for the future. Our job is to say that we want everybody engaged.”
“And we want to have a conversation about how to make sure that every person in this country is treated with dignity and respect, and there are ladders of opportunity, and that there’s the possibility of community, and that we’re getting along not in some cliché, phonied way, but in a genuine, deep way where we recognize, yeah, we have differences, and yes, there are fights that are going to have to be fought, but that deep down there is something core in us that we have in common that is extraordinary,” he continued.
Mamdani won on a platform of hiking taxes on corporations and wealthy New Yorkers, freezing rents, free buses, city-owned grocery stores and free childcare.
That turd really wants to destroy this country – and is admitting it with this dialogue!
I’ll suggest rolling that carpet back up and sticking it, Barry.
Just go away Turd