Oct 9, 2026, 4:49 PM"He is quite literally one of the greatest political success stories the U.S. socialist left has ever produced. So how does its extremist flank celebrate that success? By calling him a genocidal Zionist." https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/10/8/800109366/news/far-left-eating-its-own-mamdani/
@jef Just another reminder that some far-left voices (especially on the Internet) are psyops whose sole purpose is to manage, neutralize, and/or discredit legitimate opposition.
Oct 9, 2026, 6:56 PM@zenkat Exactly.
It would be nice if the article mentioned what Mamdani did that these protesters found objectionable.
This way it reads like a hit piece on a nebulous “far left” with a half assed lip service to DSA), that co-opts Mamdani’s popularity with slightly leftist liberals. It also expertly distances itself from Palestinian resistance as a cause.
@paninid but even if that is the case, without a sound analysis of what’s what, this doesn’t accomplish anything other than equating protest of a genocide with trolling for the sake of trolling.
If these are just a group of random trolls that happened to co-opt an actual cause, it’s not “the left” that’s doing it. The article not only fails to make the distinction, it pushes that as the point.
@jef
This is the actual far left, or is this the regular left in a country where actually pretty conservative pols get attacked for being radical leftists?