I think there’s a lot of unnecessarily strong opinions good or bad about Mamdani (not I the enlightened centrist lol). New York is a big city. Most of the time their mayors are dogshit. Even when a mayor is less shit, like De Blasio recently or La Guardia in the 30-40s they are hampered by the system, the fact the NY governor has so much influence on things, the fact that the NYPD are their own internal fascist police state etc.

But a progressive mayor is better than a reactionary. De Blasio achieved only one thing of any real note, free universal pre-K. But to many families that was a huge deal. It took a lot of pressure off them financially and was good for child development. It’s now basically untouchable.

So my expectations or hopes are that Mamdani achieves like one or two good things, sells out and is less shit than Cuomo. Basically it.