NY Progressives Unhappy that Biden is Part of Democratic Establishment

By: Arlene Faskowitz

New York’s progressive political wing is not thrilled with Joe Biden, and some don’t have confidence that he will pull off a victory.

You would see a complete repudiation of the Democratic establishment as we know it,” said Jabari Brisport, 33, a Democratic Socialist-backed candidate for state Senate expected to easily win a Brooklyn seat next week. “The Democratic establishment is not working for everyday people”, he told the NY Post

“It’s going to be the mirror image of what happened to the Republican party in the Obama years. You had the tea party, just like progressive insurgents, and then when Obama won a second term the Republican party went haywire on the inside and ate its own,” he said.

One senior official at a Democratic Political Action Committee was blunt to the NY Post

“If Biden loses it’s going to be a f–king bloodbath. There’s no other way to put it,” he said. “Heads will roll. It’s going to be ugly.”

The progressives are not exactly peace and love. This is the political stripe of the insurrectionists who have terrorized every major city in America

“You’re talking people in the streets refusing to leave. I’m not talking about looting and riots. I’m talking about everyday folks just going out into the streets in protests, like full on people in the streets for months,” Hawk Newsome, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Greater New York, told The Post.

Meanwhile NY governor has been pushing a bill which would eliminate 3rd parties essentially.

The law requires every political party to garner at least 130,000 votes, or 2 percent of the total vote, for president — whichever is higher — to maintain statewide ballot status every two years. The threshold used to be 50,000 votes. Many progressives are encouraging NY Democrats to vote for Biden on the Working Family Party ticket.

The stricter requirements, which were increased from 50,000 votes for governor, were implemented following tension between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Working Families Party in 2018, when the party endorsed his primary opponent Cynthia Nixon, before it backed him in the general election, though the governor has publicly denied any animosity, City & State reported.

NY Post reported: Top advisers to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s transition team have reportedly begun to map out what a potential Biden administration would look like, and the list does not appear to include slots for progressives.