New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s popularity in the metropolis has surged since his election last month, according to a new poll.
Seems a little premature until he is sworn in and delivers on his promises
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?
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.
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.
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!
What if we became republicans? Then they’d have to vote for us!
Checkmate progressives!
So, what you’re saying is Newsom for president? Hillary?
I’m joking. You must want Biden!
Alright mom, back to Facebook…
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I think you forgot a /s and your downvoters seem to need it.
At least, that’s what I hope, because that way your comment is a nice joke.
Slight Progressive and liberal candidates are out preforming far left Progressive in majority of the races.
examples? from, you know, actual life?
You can show your work on this right?
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Do you like to play games?Get all your russian friends, lets play a game
BOOTLICKER this person will sell out their own family for a 5 spot
You clearly feel super strong about this which is very strange. Point out some candidates and you can compare how much they beat expectations vs how much the liberals beat expectations even in red districts they were suppose to lose.
I’m guessing you listen to “progressive” pundits who are actually mask on tankies.
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.
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.
“making policy”. Yes, the mayor. Who makes the laws. That mayor making policies.
The mayor of New York City makes policies that affect more people than the governors of all but the twelve largest states. More than the smallest ten combined. His policies affect almost as many people as live in the rest of New York State.
Mamdani is about to become a massively powerful figure in American politics.
Do you think that all a mayor does is send press releases and give the key to the city to the Powerpuff girls? In NYC especially, local government controls a lot
What a mayor does varies rather a lot between cities.
You’re not wrong (in my city, the “mayor” is basically another city council member with no extra powers, just the same voting power as the other council members), but I don’t quite get what you’re disagreeing with me on.
But in NYC: Mayor of New York City - Wikipedia https://share.google/X5YRgBrWjdwhEK7o1
What does NYC’s mayor control? A look at which powers the office does, and does not, hold. - CBS New York https://share.google/RCzPsITmolAMyzPPy
Yes?
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
Ayyyyyy
My Bing Crosby karaoke request?
ball drops ≠ balls drop
Oddly enough I’ve seen the purported progressives on here already trying to claim he’s bad on a few occasions.
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
Yeah, and the legitimate lefties out there are awesome and I hope they get their way.
Then there are the ones who preach disengagement because “both sides” / “blue-maga”…
I mean, shits been fucked up largely due to neoliberals controlling the DNC…
That changed with the last chair electuon, and some people are genuinely ignorant of that fact. Others want people on the actual left to be disengaged for the next primary.
The DNC is neo-liberal, period. They are center right everywhere in the world.
You don’t understand that the chair has complete control…
Otherwise when Obama was elected youd have been saying “the president” and holding Obama accountable for everything GW did before Obama even ran for president.
At least, I’m hoping the problem here is ignorance, like I said a lot of people are lying to depress Dem turnout in the next presidential primary.
I do understand that the DNC has complete control. We’ve seen many example of that, the most egregious being Bernie vs Clinton.
US society is fundamentally to the right and the DNC will keep it that way.
That creates an issue where changing the Democrat Party will take a long long time. So the better option would be a real left party, but that would mean that Republicans would be in power for a while, until the politcal landscape changes and stabilise with 3 parties. And that’s not accounting for the DNC that will work against the newly formed party.
Denying that the DNC is neo-liberal to its core is deliberate ignorance.
Any prominent member that has an ounce of progressism has to fight the DNC at every corner to get through, like we’ve seen Mamdani.
Meanwhile, progressives should definitely vote for the Democrats. But this is a different issue. The vote turnout is terrible in North America (we have the same problem in Canada).
I’ve never seen anyone here (or anywhere on the Fediverse) actually preach disengagement. Pointing out that both sides suck isn’t preaching disengagement.
Eh, tomato/potato, the ‘genocide joe’ mantra and then immediately turning that hate on Harris when he stepped down, essentially demanding an ethically pure option…
It all ends up in the same place, a disenfranchised apathetic public leaving the door open for the current shitshow whose voters eagerly embrace the terrible options they’re offered. Perfect being the enemy of the less bad and all that.
Yeah that’s not “potato potato” that’s called fucking lying. Criticizing the options offered and preaching disengagement are two completely different things. It’s completely possible to denounce genocide Joe and “nothing comes to mind” Harris and call not for less, but for more (and more radical) engagement. No way in hell, say, Uncommitted was “preaching disengagement,” and if you feel the need to lie about people for opposing genocide you should seriously reconsider your beliefs.
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.
Yes, because people are either good or bad, and thus everything they do is either good or bad. Depending of course on whether they are good or bad only.
Really? But he’s basically a progressive dream come true? Maybe because his Trump visit? But he really did great there too.
The only consistent thing about the left since its existence is infighting and self-sabotage.
when all you have is a wedge, everything is a crack
Reminds me, I need to finish Adam Savage’s audiobook.
Then they aren’t progressives.
Everyone sucks in their own, terrible way.
The Tankies are already calling him the next Obama
Helps when you don’t have billionaire-funded FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) blasted at you every day.
He did get blasted though.
edit: all that Muslim = 9/11 terrorist shit, fucking disgusting.
While I support him and agree his popularity is up, beware of the numbers in this article.
It switches between NY City polls and NY State polls.
The poll also found support for some of Mamdani’s proposals—65 percent of New York State voters support offering universal, free child care for families with young children, and 50 percent of city voters support eliminating fares on New York City buses.
His tenure as mayor will be closely watched as a measure of how popular more socialist policies may be among the electorate
“His affordability agenda has resonated both locally and nationally,” Viteritti said. “His ability to advance it is the big test ahead. If he succeeds, he is obviously a winner.”
This is normal for someone newly elected. Hopes are high.
Good. The man deserves it.
Ideally, he deserves it. But so far, he’s done nothing, since he’s not in office.
Glad to see you get up- not downvoted for this. I like Mamdani and I want to see him succeed, but so close after his election this doesn’t tell us very much. Let’s hope he walks the talk (as much as possible - I am a realist).
