This. I was a proponent of that shit for decades, and all it's done is reinforce the Dems' tendency to take their core constituencies for granted and lurch further to the right.
I will not, under any circumstances, vote for Newsom's Nazi-platforming ass. Pick someone else.
The fact that this guy put together a political apparatus from grassroots that ran rings around the NYC Democratic establishment despite being outspent 4:1 speaks very well about his leadership abilities.
It depends. Some cities do nonpartisan elections (usually with some form of "jungle primary"), some cities do partisan ones. For the ones with partisan elections, there are often more than two parties, but parties other than the Republicans and Democrats rarely have a shot at office.
NY has a unique system in that it has a lot of parties, but many of them just endorse a candidate from one of the big 2 parties rather than running their own. This is why Cuomo isn't entirely out of this thing yet, unfortunately; he conceded the Democratic nomination, but he still has the nomination from the Fight and Deliver party (which he, himself, founded specifically for this election) and may choose to continue to run as their candidate instead of dropping out.
What's really unintelligent is rehashing grudges over and over again and further alienating exactly the people whose help you need to fix this mess. But what do I know?
Look, if the only plan to stop the fascist uprising that has been building for decades was "win every election forever", then there was no fucking plan. This shit was going to happen at some point.
Stop scolding people for not falling in line with you and start figuring out what to do next.
I honestly doubt the Supreme Court will bother to hear his case. Even the right sees him as a clown at this point.