John,
New York votes today — and the coverage of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral race has been a master class in how the far right plants a lie and the legacy media runs with it.
You’ve seen it everywhere: pundits and columnists breathlessly treating Mamdani’s campaign like a national crisis — a “test” of whether Democrats have gone “too far left.”
That’s not journalism. That’s propaganda straight out of Trump’s mouth — and the press is amplifying it for free.
Every time reporters repeat Trump’s red-scare talking points, they tell voters that fighting for affordable housing, better transit, or working people’s dignity is somehow radical. They make it sound like having new ideas is dangerous — when the real danger is letting MAGA bullies and out-of-touch power brokers define what Democrats are allowed to stand for.
Some in the Democratic establishment are nervous about what happens if Mamdani wins — and that’s exactly how Trump wants it. He’s manipulating the media to box Democrats in, keep them on defense, and sell the lie that Democrats are the real extremists and only MAGA cares about working people.
John, what happens in New York today isn’t a “test of the Democratic Party.” It’s a test of whether democracy still welcomes new voices and debate — or whether corporate pundits, MAGA, and political consultants get to decide who speaks.
COURIER was built to break that cycle — to call out the lies, challenge the spin, and tell the truth about what’s really at stake.
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The COURIER Team