{"id":19493,"date":"2025-07-21T11:38:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/leftists-are-determined-to-date-each-other-and-not-settle-for-liberals-politics-are-the-new-religion\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:38:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:38:05","slug":"leftists-are-determined-to-date-each-other-and-not-settle-for-liberals-politics-are-the-new-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/leftists-are-determined-to-date-each-other-and-not-settle-for-liberals-politics-are-the-new-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists are determined to date each other – and not settle for liberals: \u2018Politics are the new religion\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Progressives are seeking ideologically aligned matches as \u2018hot commie summer\u2019 heats up, but the apps aren\u2019t helping<\/p>\n

Zohran Mamdani gave Hinge an unofficial boost last month when the New York mayoral candidate revealed<\/a> that he met his wife, Rama Duwaji, through swiping. \u201cThere is still hope on those dating apps,\u201d he said on the Bulwark podcast a week before his stunning victory in the Democratic primary. The tidbit spread over social media, cementing the 33-year-old democratic socialist<\/a>\u2019s status as a millennial everyman. A subsequent Cosmopolitan headline read<\/a>: \u201cZohran Mamdani could make history (as the first NYC mayor to meet his wife on Hinge).\u201d<\/p>\n

Representatives for Hinge would not comment, but plenty of eligible New Yorkers did, claiming they would redownload the app due to Mamdani\u2019s success, in spite of their dating fatigue<\/a>. \u201cNow I\u2019m clocking in like it\u2019s a full-time job,\u201d one user posted<\/a> on TikTok. \u201cIf he can find love on that app maybe I can,\u201d another wrote<\/a> in a caption.<\/p>\n

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\nProgressives are seeking ideologically aligned matches as \u2018hot commie summer\u2019 heats up, but the apps aren\u2019t helping
\nZohran Mamdani gave Hinge an unofficial boost last month when the New York mayoral candidate revealed that he met his wife, Rama Duwaji, through swiping. \u201cThere is still hope on those dating apps,\u201d he said on the Bulwark podcast a week before his stunning victory in the Democratic primary. The tidbit spread over social media, cementing the 33-year-old democratic socialist\u2019s status as a millennial everyman. A subsequent Cosmopolitan headline read: \u201cZohran Mamdani could make history (as the first NYC mayor to meet his wife on Hinge).\u201d
\nRepresentatives for Hinge would not comment, but plenty of eligible New Yorkers did, claiming they would redownload the app due to Mamdani\u2019s success, in spite of their dating fatigue. \u201cNow I\u2019m clocking in like it\u2019s a full-time job,\u201d one user posted on TikTok. \u201cIf he can find love on that app maybe I can,\u201d another wrote in a caption. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Progressives are seeking ideologically aligned matches as \u2018hot commie summer\u2019 heats up, but the apps aren\u2019t helping Zohran Mamdani gave Hinge an unofficial boost last month when the New York mayoral candidate revealed that he met his wife, Rama Duwaji, through swiping. \u201cThere is still hope on those dating apps,\u201d he said on the Bulwark …<\/p>\n

Leftists are determined to date each other – and not settle for liberals: \u2018Politics are the new religion\u2019<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}