In the bid for New York House, Jamaal Bowman was bound and determined this past weekend to “show New York who the f-ck he is” and boy howdy, did he!
Call us a bit gleeful that Jamaal Bowman lost, according to this.
It’s not that George Latimer is much better. He’s still a Democrat. But, he did beat out the guy who pulled the fire alarm with roughly 23,850 votes to Jamaal’s 19,754.
And this is where the blame game will start. I’m sure he and his fellow Squad members will blame his loss on some for of systemic racism. It’s all the fault of the Jews in New York, we are sure. Why, oh, why, did Bowman lose? Here are some of the musings for you from The Atlantic:
Indeed, the race was the most expensive House primary in history largely because a pro-Israel group inundated the di
strict with TV ads attacking Bowman….”-Russel Berman, The Atlantic
See? It was the Jews. After all, the rabbis saw through Bowman’s shameless requests for photo ops to save face. But “that’s not the whole story”, they say. The Atlantic has more:
When Bowman first ran, in 2020, his majority-minority district was more progressive than it is now—and more progressive than AOC’s. Shortly after he won, the decennial reapportionment process extended the northern boundary to include more of New York City’s wealthier suburbs. Bowman’s district now features just a sliver of the Bronx. ‘His district is not woke. It is Democratic.’”-Russel Berman, The Atlantic
They’re Democrats, not straight-up socialists, although lately, the lines have been quite blurry. Rich Democrats do want to keep their money, though. They’re “woke” out of convenience and virtue. Sure, they’ll hang a pride flag and “stand with Palestine” but when protests start rioting in and trashing their streets and neighborhoods and things get violent, they draw the line. Bowman certainly DID show them “who the f-ck he was”, and they did not approve.
But wait, there’s more. Could Jamaal Bowman have lost because of this?
Bowman, a charismatic and unapologetic leftist with a penchant for controversy, would have had a tough reelection fight even if AIPAC hadn’t emerged to add so much rocket fuel to Latimer’s campaign. He faced a House censure for pulling a false fire alarm when Democrats were trying to stall a vote. Blog posts he wrote more than a decade ago appeared to give credence to 9/11 conspiracy theories, and his YouTube page following conspiracy accounts became news. He was forced to apologize after lavishing praise on Norman Finkelstein, the acerbic anti-Israel scholar, at a panel discussion. And he initially claimed reports of Hamas raping Israeli women on October 7 were ‘propaganda.’”-New York Magazine, Intelligencer
Imagine. This guy was a middle-school principal. Imagine this school administrator calling the rape or sexual harassment of a young Jewish student by a Muslim student “propaganda”. (Note, video NSFW):
Progressives, meanwhile, have been dealt a grievous blow. Bowman was a rising star and someone who could have, with enough time in the House, run for higher office. When he first ran against Engel, he was able to forge coalitions between working-class voters of color and college-educated activists. The Squad, without him, is still large enough and may grow in the coming years — even if Cori Bush, another prominent member, also loses this summer.”-Ross, Barkan, New York Magazine
Dear God. Can we dare to hope?
Unfortunately, we still have AOC, who, despite her unhinged rant this past weekend as well, won her primary last night.
Two more years of that voice. pic.twitter.com/tbUUjCDacI
— Mike McGarry (@MikeMcGarryReal) June 26, 2024
Still, one less member of The Squad is, indeed, one less member of The Squad.
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