Apologies for being pessimistic but it's not gonna matter at all. It might even be worse if he does win. Half the Democrats are already planning independent runs. The other half will do everything in their power to sabotage his run from inside the party. If he does win the primary then the whole New York Democratic apparatus is going to withhold its support for him and will quietly support Cuomo.

If he somehow manages to win in the general election despite this then the whole bureaucracy will just cease to cooperate with him and ever single issue will be blamed on him. The papers will say "The People's Republic of NYC, another failure of socialism". He's an AOC/old school DSA guy which means he's unlikely to have the guts to seize and wield power the way he would need to because the norms are too important.

This is the problem with the DSA program that they actually carry out. They are able to build electoral machines that win elections but they're toothless at the end of the day. When they get into office they are simply not compatible with the bourgeois state as it exists and the actual power brokers in the DSA are unwilling to smash any part of the capitalist state with mass action.

Edit: if I were to offer a solution rather than just a criticism I would say after the primary he should run for mayor regardless of whether or not he wins and he should spend the entire campaign explaining to New Yorkers that if they want things like universal childcare, free busses, and rent freezes then they need to make the system untenable until they are won. He needs to explain to them very explicitly that no politician can or will deliver on those things and all the forces of the state are aligned against them.

You WILL see articles from the NYT called “The progressive case to vote Republican.” or something like that.

Look at you, having hope that things will improve.

Good for you, champ.

wrong

good things do not happen in america

I think he's gonna do it. Momentum is a real thing in electoralism and the polling is so close.

Be prepared for the most insufferable media coverage imaginable. If Cuomo wins, there will be an establishment victory lap talking about how the steady center is the way forward followed by zero critical coverage of how he actually governs. If Zohran wins... well, you can imagine. We joke about how leftists always infight, but it's going to be nothing compared to how liberal media will punch left against him.

Also FUCK Bernie Sanders, that piece of shit should've had two rallies in New York by now elevating Zohran's image

The ratfuck is already in motion. Cuomo has already committed to running as an independent in the general if he loses the primary. You know that when it comes down to it, the Dem establishment will throw their support behind him instead of the Democratic nominee

Dude was on TV and advocated for the one-state solution, he’s golden in my book.

Do I dare to dream that somewhere in America something good will happen?

What's going on with personal identity and the optics of socialism? By that I mean: Zohran is crushing it with college-educated white men, according to the polls. Meanwhile, Establishment Dem Cuomo has won majority support from women, people of color, and old folks. I know socialism is rarified and academic, so for that reason it has a white stigma. I don't live in NY, but I wonder what DSA is doing to reverse that. Any other explanations for why the polls are shaking out this way? How are women supporting Cuomo despite his sexual harassment resignation, or old people after the 2020 nursing home scandal? Or is it as simple as Dem propaganda, powerful business interests, media bias, etc.

Don't do that don't give me hope

Here's how Zohran can still win

Watch them find a way to ratfuck him at the last minute because nothing good is allowed to happen in the United Pits of Hell.

is it 2019 again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JEsBOIjCw0 he hits a lot of demographics