Making the Friend/Enemy distinction the fundamental axis of politics is to reject the Aristotelian claim at the heart of western civilization that says politics is about human flourishing and pursuing the good, and to replace it with the political ideology of 3rd world tribalism.
If you want The West to turn into Somalia, tell people that the fundamental distinction all political motives and actions revolve around is "who is on my team and who isn't," and the goal is to reward your friends while harming enemies.
Cause that's how Somalia works
There are a whole lot of people running around acting like "friend/enemy" is some kind of deep idea, or profound simplification of politics, when in fact it's little more than the rejection of the grand political tradition of western civilization in favor do 3rd world tribalism.
2/ They don't do land acknowledgements and such in order to make my son feel unwelcome, they are just applying the things they were taught in college about "reconciliation." For the most part, these teachers mean well and are really trying their best, but because of the skew...
3/ of the teacher toward being both progressive and toward being women, the result is a very feminine coded social justice oriented environment across the education system. The result is that the environment is terrific for little girls, but can be difficult for little boys...
People coming from third world nations to advanced western nations bring their ideas about of how society works with them.
So they don't see electoral politics as a tool for ensuring proper governance, they see it as a way to get goodies for their clan and win tribal conflicts
This isn't because those people are evil, stupid—it's because in third world nations the primary use of politics really is for winners to give goodies to their friends and settle scores with their enemies.
The competent management of infrastructure and services is secondary.
So, rather then ask "how can I govern in a way that is best for the health of the nation as a whole, and whst is the best way to ensure competent management of the advanced systems that make society work?" The third worlder asks "how can I reward my friends and harm my enemies?"
Mamdani's win today had absolutely nothing to do with anything happening on X, nor did it have anything to do with Nick Fuentes, Groypers, or intra-right squabbles.
The Mamdani cake was baked weeks ago, this win, and margin of victory, were predicted by polling for weeks...
Mamdani won because he was able to appeal to the professional creative class demographic of NYC. The fact that Mamdani only won 50% of Muslims, but 70% of non-religious people tells you who his base was: downwardly mobile educated creative class professionals....
Nothing on X, and I mean nothing, played any role in his getting elected.
Cuomo and Adams both staying in the race despite their unpopularity didn't help (a centrist without either of their baggage might have pulled out a win) but anyone telling out that this was about...
1/ The Advisory Board of the Community Development Financial Institution Fund is staffed by leftists, and it funnels money into leftist causes.
For example: Justin Maxson, who sits on the board of the CDFI Fund, created a "racial equity lens" in his previous job.
2/ Jennifer Sun works at Asian Americans For Equality which "advances racial, social, and economic
justice for Asian American, immigrant and other systematically disadvantaged communities"
Again, it's a social justice focus.
3/ Maria Bilonick works at the Opportunity Finance Netowork, which funnels money into "racial equity" and "environmental justice."
1/ These Republicans are protecting the CDFI fund, an institution which funnels money into left wing causes.
The CDFI gave 173 Million dollars to the Opportunity Finance Network, and organization that is concerned with DEI, Systemic Racism, and "Racial Justice"
2/ The Opportunity Finance Network is an institution that has as its goal advancing leftists ideology and talking points.
For example, the CDFI ran a post reflecting on how they were going to "operationalize racial equity" into their work.
This is just a folk version of Critical Race Theory
3/ The Opportunity Finance Network also worked to ensure that the Community Development Financial Institutions's (that are funded by the governments CDFI Fund) are bringing in DEI to their networks and business practices.