Zohran Mamdani

[Klaus Hergersheimer]

My feeling is that Mayor Mamdani, so far, repeatedly shows that he wants people to be around him who value some form of ideological purity over finesse. More so, who think that a not-insignificant portion of their own constituents are deeply racist (Jews, strangely, and landlords a sizable amount of whom are Asian) who must be taken to task. Perhaps this just speaks to his general youth and inexperience, but I think it will go one of two ways:

1) that these people's outlooks are so preposterous even on an interpersonal-skills level that it'll lead to red tape entanglements and/or infighting, which ultimately cancels most everything out except for the mundane stuff like fixing bike lanes etc.
2) that their executive decisions will overstep so far that it'll invalidate any pretenses of them being thought of as "democratic" socialists, because of their greater need to ratchet societal changes into place forever, irrespective of New Yorkers actually wanting them* or not.

*and I do mean in the sense that barely a 51% victory versus 2 other candidates was by no means a landslide endorsement.

so, yeah, so long as you have people who've no inclination of adopting a more Bill Clinton-esque poise, and who openly reject such a governing style (Mamdani: "to those who say the era of big government is over..." /paraphrasing), I've no reason not to judge them for what they explicitly present themselves as.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Mayor Mamdani, so far, repeatedly shows that he wants people to be around him who value some form of ideological purity over finesse. More so, who think that a not-insignificant portion of their own constituents are deeply racist (Jews, strangely, and landlords a sizable amount of whom are Asian) who must be taken to task.

You do know that if you change Mamdami to Trump in your sentence, you get an even truer picture of US politics on a national scale.

"Trump, so far, repeatedly shows that he wants people to be around him who value some form of ideological purity over finesse. More so, who think that a not-insignificant portion of their own constituents are deeply racist ... who must be taken to task."

 

[Sarin]

You do know that if you change Mamdami to Trump in your sentence, you get an even truer picture of US politics on a national scale.

"Trump, so far, repeatedly shows that he wants people to be around him who value some form of ideological purity over finesse. More so, who think that a not-insignificant portion of their own constituents are deeply racist ... who must be taken to task."

You realize both can be true at the same time?
You are wrong about Trump though, his appointees are chosen not for their ideology, but bootlicking.

 

[danjuno]

My feeling is that Mayor Mamdani, so far, repeatedly shows that he wants people to be around him who value some form of ideological purity over finesse. More so, who think that a not-insignificant portion of their own constituents are deeply racist (Jews, strangely, and landlords a sizable amount of whom are Asian) who must be taken to task. Perhaps this just speaks to his general youth and inexperience, but I think it will go one of two ways:

1) that these people's outlooks are so preposterous even on an interpersonal-skills level that it'll lead to red tape entanglements and/or infighting, which ultimately cancels most everything out except for the mundane stuff like fixing bike lanes etc.
2) that their executive decisions will overstep so far that it'll invalidate any pretenses of them being thought of as "democratic" socialists, because of their greater need to ratchet societal changes into place forever, irrespective of New Yorkers actually wanting them* or not.

*and I do mean in the sense that barely a 51% victory versus 2 other candidates was by no means a landslide endorsement.

so, yeah, so long as you have people who've no inclination of adopting a more Bill Clinton-esque poise, and who openly reject such a governing style (Mamdani: "to those who say the era of big government is over..." /paraphrasing), I've no reason not to judge them for what they explicitly present themselves as.

So you do, in fact, believe that land seizures (or attempts thereof) are the goal of the new administration based on some tweets?