Tara Palmeri: How Zohran Mamdani & Donald Trump Use The Same Playbook

"What if the boldest voices in politics—from rising stars like Zohran Mamdani to entrenched figures like Donald Trump—are secretly reading from the same scripted page of tactics and maneuvers?

In this episode of Tara Palmeri Live, dive deep into the uncanny parallels shaping today's political battlegrounds, where progressive upstarts and conservative powerhouses deploy identical strategies of disruption, narrative control, and crowd mobilization to advance wildly opposing agendas. Joined by Steve Schmidt, the veteran strategist behind incisive takes on political peril, we unpack how these playbook moves expose the raw mechanics of influence in a divided America, from viral messaging blitzes to coalition-building gambits that flip the script on conventional wisdom.

What overlooked tactic from this shared playbook do you see dominating the next election cycle?" 

Source:Tara Palmeri doing her impression of a lot in space valley girl. Actually, I don't know what she's doing there.

From Tara Palmeri

So the basic point of what Tara Palmeri and Steve Schmidt is talking about here, is that what I would call the Squad-Left, or the Bernie Bro-Left, has taken on the establishment wing of the Democratic Party and has beaten them. All that's obvious and Palemeri and Schmidt got into what they call the establishment wing of the Democratic Party.

If you are from Washington, like myself, the establishment is the K Street wing of the Democratic Party. The Squad-Left is basically the hipster, coffee house wing, of very young and idealistic... leftist Democrats and people who aren't officially Democrats, but vote Democrat when they see Democrats who are leftist and cool enough for them. 

And the K Street wing of the Democratic Party, are the corporate backers who can finance mainstream Democrats campaigns all by themselves, just from their corporate pacs, or with their own money. And those folks don't want to be seen as Republicans, even mainstream Republicans. But what they are really worried about is the Democratic Party becoming too left-wing and too far-left, too idealistic and populist. And think you win campaigns by being mushy-middle, but never ever having any solid principles about anything to win purple states and districts. 

And I agree, part of the problem with the Democratic Party is that they're seen as the party of Ivy League, wealthy people, who've never had to even worry about they would pay for their own college education, let alone their kids and people are very awkward when they have to talk to ordinary Americans, who have to work really hard everyday, just to pay their bills. 

So Zohran Mamdani comes along in 2025 in New York City who has taken some real far-left, whacked-out positions like: 

NYPD: "Racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety, and a rogue agency." 

Property rights: “If there was any system that could guarantee each person housing — whether you call it the abolition of private property or you call it a statewide housing guarantee — it is preferable to what is going on right now". 

Government-run grocery stores: Zohran Mamdani has proposed to create municipal owned grocery stores in New York City. He's proposing that the government there run and own grocery stores in that city. 

But since Mamdani speaks to the concerns about a lot of New Yorkers there, when it comes to affordability and has no issues about telling people what he thinks about anything, regardless of how far-left he sounds, he's doing something in New York City, what Donald Trump is doing nationally... or at least in the states that Trump won... which is win in all of these places simply by being himself. And running against the corrupt establishment in his own party. 

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