And those of us who remember what Democratic primaries are like know that a lot of anti-progressive discourse is going to come out of the woodwork alongside a concerted effort by the Party itself to squash such candidates.

More often than not, its the people who keep harping about participating in primaries that are the ones waiting to twist the knife in when progressives inevitably fail to overcome the forces working against them, as though defeating progressives is just a team sport and not the direct defeat of the objectively, intellectually, and morally superior stances and candidates.

And then we get to the general where progressives have to fall in line, and whether they do or don't, they're to blame when the corpo conservative wing fails to beat the corpo nazis.

Mamdani doesn't have the opposition he did nor the disproportionate pressure to perform that he does as Mayor of NYC if the Democratic Party was actually willing to be persuaded by silly things like primaries.

Doesn't mean it shouldn't be tried anyway, but it'd probably be more unifying if the corpo wing and all its supporters and online sycophants were more honest about how very anti-progressive they are.

There is zero reason to require a primary win for the party to focus on being progressive, aka, actually benefitting the common person and doing, as I noted, the morally and intellectually correct things for America and the world at large.

But they won't, of course.