Robert Reich to Mamdani: Why Is It So Hard for Dems to Understand that You’re the Future of the Democratic Party?

EXCERPT:

REICH: “Well, I — you know, in terms of catching up to the world, I mean, you are, I think, the future — I have said this many times, others have as well — the future of the Democratic Party. Why is it so hard for the Democratic Party to understand that?”

MAMDANI: “(laughs) I can — I can tell you that I’ve — I’ve been very excited by what I’ve heard from Democrats across here, the five boroughs here in New York City. And I think, you know, part of the resistance to the idea that the Democratic Party could return to being a party of an affirmative vision that fights for the dignity of working people is that there have been a lot of people who’ve made a lot of money over the last few years in having a purely oppositional framework of what it is that we stand for.”