Are you talking about the Jorge Ramos stuff/him saying “Israel has a right to exist”?
I do count those as flaws, btw.
I think saying “Oh I don’t really think about Diaz-Canel or Maduro, I’m focusing on New York and I recognize that the Cuban and Venezuelan states are repressive” is a pretty weak condemnation when you can call almost all states repressive, because all states (in the case of Cuba and Venezuela, justifiably) need to repress their internal enemies, many of whom leave that state (and many gusanos landed in New York,I’m sure) It doesn’t really serve his point in the interview to acknowledge that but he’s towing the line with his pinky at that point.
Sliding on Israel sucks but saying “I support the right of Israel to exist, with qualifications, and not as it exists now” is absolutely not what the Zionists want.
But ultimately the guy’s running for mayor and he doesn’t actually need totally good foreign policy positions because he’s got constituents to win over and his power extends to the borders of NYC.
Basically I think it’s good for the guy to have broad appeal and a socialist agenda in NYC. We’ll see how he does but at the same time I think that he has a better chance to legitimize socialism as a political force because he can deliver on his policies, rather than getting subsumed into national politics by the nature of the system like AOC was.
i would certainly be more mad about it if he was going to be on the house appropriations committee but i wouldn’t call his evasions especially skillful
then why did he slide so much on
and say that shit about Cuba and Venezuela?
Are you talking about the Jorge Ramos stuff/him saying “Israel has a right to exist”?
I do count those as flaws, btw.
I think saying “Oh I don’t really think about Diaz-Canel or Maduro, I’m focusing on New York and I recognize that the Cuban and Venezuelan states are repressive” is a pretty weak condemnation when you can call almost all states repressive, because all states (in the case of Cuba and Venezuela, justifiably) need to repress their internal enemies, many of whom leave that state (and many gusanos landed in New York,I’m sure) It doesn’t really serve his point in the interview to acknowledge that but he’s towing the line with his pinky at that point.
Sliding on Israel sucks but saying “I support the right of Israel to exist, with qualifications, and not as it exists now” is absolutely not what the Zionists want.
But ultimately the guy’s running for mayor and he doesn’t actually need totally good foreign policy positions because he’s got constituents to win over and his power extends to the borders of NYC.
Basically I think it’s good for the guy to have broad appeal and a socialist agenda in NYC. We’ll see how he does but at the same time I think that he has a better chance to legitimize socialism as a political force because he can deliver on his policies, rather than getting subsumed into national politics by the nature of the system like AOC was.
i would certainly be more mad about it if he was going to be on the house appropriations committee but i wouldn’t call his evasions especially skillful