Seems a little premature until he is sworn in and delivers on his promises
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2025
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Wonder how the Democratic party will ratfuck this guy.
They’ll block his policies and allow special interests to run attack ads, then will savage him in the next primary that he was ineffective at carrying out his policies.
Weird how these progressive candidates keep having very high approval ratings while the moderates/secret Republicans get much lower approvals. Maybe we need to pick more of the progressive candidates.
And it's getting harder to distinguish. I mean... look at Jasmine Crockett, since Mamdani's win, liberals have started cosplaying as progressives. You can tell, because the only thing they do is point out the problems, but never propose a solution, while people like Bernie and Mamdani didn't stop with pointing out "healthcare and housing are expensive", they ran on actual solutions like medicare and rent-freezing.
Ok how does a mayor solve cost of living and medical issues. I'm not American do Mayors there have special powers?
Mamdani ran on making the buses free [at point of use, in case someone felt the need to argue this], creating city owned groceries stores to close food desert gaps and provide competition to keep prices down at private stores, and doing something to stop landlords forcing people out of their rent controlled apartments.
Most of which is within a mayor's power
they can't directly. but indirectly they can have local tools to reduce costs. foremost is to increase supply. other ways would be tax credits/abatements, city-sponsored clinics, etc.
they can't solve it, but they can reduce costs. the problem, however, is often such programs are politically very unpopular and the voters tend to get bent out of shape over their 'unfairness'.
Bernie ran on medical issues, Zohran ran on cost of living and housing. https://www.zohranfornyc.com/platform
If I had a dollar for every time a Republican friend told me, “how are we going to pay for these things” with it acknowledging the progressives have solutions for that.
Meanwhile, they didn't bat an eye at the I.C.E. budget.
Or the record setting defense budget
Nah bro we can pivot right and get moderates. Please bro just one more drift to the right I swear bro, we'll get the moderate republicans this time!
Turns out people actually do like it when your policies are aimed at helping them do better, as opposed to robbing them of what little they have left.
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Had he even entered office yet?
Not til the ball drops
What to pre-pubescent testicles have to do with this?
NYC has the ball drop at new year.
I was clearly making a joke.
So like, do New Yorkers hold their balls until new years? Dont they get tired?
That's where the Mandani socialism comes in.
A burden shared is a burden halved
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Oddly enough I've seen the purported progressives on here already trying to claim he's bad on a few occasions.
i most see then angry he's not a far left communist and only a 'mere' social democrat.
Hate to break it to you, but people can lie about what they believe and who they are...
Especially on the internet.
No one knows youre a dog on the internet
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Really? But he's basically a progressive dream come true? Maybe because his Trump visit? But he really did great there too.
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There is absolutely room for criticism against Zohran. I wholeheartedly support that voting for him was still the correct choice and I hope he really does unleash significant progressive policy for NYC. I also believe he deserves the criticism for manufacturing consent for action against Venezuela and Cuba by [calling their presidents dictators] (https://blackallianceforpeace.com/movement-news/zohran-mamdani) in the context of today's likelihood of attack against the former; and for his redundancy on pinning the Isntreali genocide of Palestinians on October 7th.
they are dictators. most of the world sees them as dictators.
whether or not that justifies military action is another question, but they are certainly not freely elected representatives, anymore than Putin is. And the countries that do recognize the legitimacy of their elections... are also dictatorships.
not freely elected
They definitely aren't freely elected. You can't have free elections when the US government is interfering in them by sanctions.
As stated in the memorandum on the sanctions in the office of the historian governmental website:
The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent) [...] The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. [...] every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.
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Wait until he starts making policy. Then see if you’re still thrilled. We’v been disappointed in the past.
I'd rather have him fail on half of his policies than Cuomo implement all of his.
some things are more do-able than others. Free buses is easy. bringing down rents, not so much.
I’m more concerned with performative things like (hypothetically) making it ok to paint rainbow crosswalks vs. taxing billionaires or allowing ICE to go uncontrolled in the Boroughs.
The optimist in me wants you to shut up but the realist in me knows that will be the true test.
Agreed. Sucks being a lib/progressive and being constantly disappointed in some way by your leadership. Meanwhile, the right sets everything on fire, including themselves, and parties like it’s 2099.
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Helps when you don't have billionaire-funded FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) blasted at you every day.
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