Not that anyone asked for it, but my take on the Mamdani Palestine protests yesterday is that it’s perfectly natural and reasonable for groups like Within Our Lifetime to protest Mamdani (their focus is on Palestine, their job is to force political actors to care about Palestine) but because a DSA socialist has never held a position of this high prominence before, a lot of people on the left are squeamish about the concept of not playing for the sake of the team. Mamdani himself very clearly has no idea what to do when he’s challenged by his leftward flank, who he probably imagines as his base. This will only be a bigger issue going forward. And yes, many of the slogans used at the protest scream of overzealousness, but that’s how these things tend to go, particularly when you’re mostly made up of leftist college students