Why Trump and Republicans may hope Mamdani is the ‘saviour’ of the Democratic Party
Mamdani and his progressive brand of politics have been pegged by some Democrats as the saviour and future of the party.
For example, in a recent column in the Guardian, Democrat and former U.S. secretary of labour Robert Reich referred to Mamdani as the “the brightest light in the Democratic Party” and wrote that “Mamdani and others like him are its future.”
That may be exactly what the Republicans want.
In addition to Trump’s comments branding Mamdani a communist, other Republicans have painted the mayor-elect and his agenda as being radical and politically too far left.
They believe his policies are out of step with mainstream American voters, and that a Democratic campaign based on his more-progressive ideas would be doomed to fail on the national stage.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis posted on X before Mamdani’s victory that he would be “the most prominent Democrat in America the day he takes office,” if elected.
“Voters across the country will be able to watch his leftist agenda in action and know that his path is the Democrat path nationally,” DeSantis wrote.
