General Discussion

...other than some dislike figures they deem to be aligned with the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad DNC Establishment (tm) and thus find ways to criticize them no matter what, but they like those that they view as being anti-DNC Establishment (tm), so they find ways to praise them no matter.

If most Democrats had come out against a young DSA candidate primarying Hakeem Jeffries and were seen yucking it up with Trump in the White House, they would be excoriated by a certain segment of the left; but Mamdani is on their team, so, it's all okay. They even say that Mamdani """tamed""" Trump -- won him over! The only way you win over a supreme narcissist like Trump is by kissing his ass. You can bet if he kept up the same rhetoric and attitude he had towards Trump during his campaign, Trump would not have been all smiles.

But that's fine. Maybe these people will learn that that is how you have to be if you want to be successful at governance and they will stop vilifying those other Democrats that have to play the same game. In a democracy with the checks and balances that we have, you can't just be a grouchy curmudgeon and expect to get any of your policies enacted if most of your colleagues dislike you. You often have to work with people you don't agree with.