Two of his core materialist promises are to decrease food costs and housing costs. Both of them being expensive are actually due to the rentier class, the owner class that makes money through leveraged shenanigans and not production. That class depends almost entirely on imperialism to function and when that engine slows down, it facilitates greater and more explicit fascistic heights domestically. As a mayor, he similarly has little power over that class’s actions. He cannot do upstate land reform. He will have a very hard time directly fighting real estate interests to either expropriate property, controlling rents more than they already are, or building sufficient new low income housing. Not that he will automatically lose the latter fight, but it is very likely he will fall short because of the scale of his enemies. And all of this assumes he gives it a real go.

So, how well will he fare against those interests if he doesn’t understand how they function? When they do some capital striking will he be surprised? When there is a substantial influx of Venezuelan immigrants will he go, “well how did that happen!?” When gas prices jump, will he go on TV and say, “hold the course, Venezuela has our oil and we are liberating it as we speak”?