Jeet Heer
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4d ago
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with losing campaigns and then use this celebrity to take it over.
And DSA is doing something similar, except that their leverage is not celebrity or Trump's type of money, but the organizing thing.
And there's been a sort of general hollowing out
organizing and like I think partially because both political parties depend a lot on consultants and then you like you know you use the money that you have to hire people to do things and in pretty good New York City there's sort of old machines people talk about political machines but like
The old machines of like, you know, that existed back to Tammany Hall into the 70s and 80s.
Those were like an entire life world.
Like you would have like, you know, clubs that you would go to.
And if you needed a job, people there could help you.
And you had dances.
People like met their life partner there.
Right.
They had social events.
This is an entire social world.
But starting with the sort of, you know, like rise of social media, all that social world has kind of disappeared.
And a lot of the other institutions that function with the machines, like sort of like the black churches.
Well, what you've seen is like among younger black people, like especially young men, they're much more.
So those become more like freelance voters.
And some of those went over to Trump, but could also go over to Mamdani.
What the DSA has is that they have actually built the only real machine that we've seen in the 21st century.
And people who are in that DSA world, they hold events.
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