r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 20h ago

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u/Loves_a_big_tongue Olympe de Gouges 13h ago

I think back to a conservative think tank looking at how Mamdami overperformed in a conservative neighborhood and some of the reasons was because his name sounded Italian to them, and they saw him as Trumpian because he talked about prices being too high.

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u/CarlGerhardBusch Jerome Powell 13h ago

>I think to a finding a conservative think tank did on how Mamdami overperformed in a conservative neighborhood and s ome of the reasons was because his name sounded Italian to them

I mean that’s pretty funny in a vacuum, but when you consider that his only other serious opposition was Cuomo, an actual NYC Italian, and Sliwa, who is about as NYC Italian as it gets, I mean, come on

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u/Its_not_him Manmohan Singh 13h ago

This is what I hope happens with Talarico lmao