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When Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City, Republicans and corporate Democrats across the board had a hysterical meltdown, predicting everything from economic ruin to full-blown Sharia law.
Five months in, Mamdani is delivering huge wins for the working families of New York and proving why defenders of the status quo were so vehemently opposed to him — because now people are being shown what a government that actually cares about people can do for them, and that the sad state of American society is largely a policy choice.
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Yesterday morning, Mayor Mamdani summed up his approach to governance in a speech celebrating the beginning of his city-owned grocery store program:
Ronald Reagan famously said, “the 9 most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’” I disagree. 9 more terrifying words are actually ‘I worked all day, and can’t feed my family.’ We are going to use the power of government to lower prices and make it easier for New Yorkers to put food on the table.”
“When families go shopping for groceries, there are not enough affordable options. We are here to change that. We are fulfilling a campaign promise of lowering prices by creating city-owned grocery stores, one in each borough. Prices will be cheaper and workers will be paid fairly.”
In just a few months, Mamdani has upended American politics with the novel idea of promising popular policies on the campaign trail and then actually delivering them.
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Since taking office, Mayor Mamdani has wiped out a $12 billion budget deficit, launched a pilot program for universal free childcare, invested $122 million to hire another 1,000 teachers, and announced another $250 million towards restoring unsafe and run-down apartments.
He’s started taxing the rich with a new pied-à-terre tax on second home purchases worth over $5 million. He created an Office of Deed Theft Prevention to stop fraudsters from stealing homes. And he banned hidden hotel fees and unannounced credit card holds.
Zohran visited the White House in February and returned with a plan to build 12,000 affordable housing units after charming the pants off Donald Trump. Oh, Mamdani’s administration also filled 100,000 potholes in his first 100 days.
He took on bad landlords who neglected their units for years while raking in huge profits, winning a $31 million judgment against the Pinnacle Group for their abysmal treatment of their renters and held Rental Ripoff Hearings across the city for renters to voice their complaints and concerns.
He even guaranteed funding for NYC’s public libraries, ending the practice of forcing the library to justify its existence every time a new budget is written, and set up “soccer streets” to help kids celebrate the upcoming World Cup.
“Traditional politics would decree that in a moment like this, when a crisis is so stark, when a budget gap is so wide, that the first things cut should be parks, libraries and cultural institutions. And yet we know that these services live at the heart of our city, that they give meaning to millions of New Yorkers’ lives. Rather than cutting funding to these services, we will do the opposite and raise the baseline of what they can expect!” said Mamdani at the announcement of his new budget.
This kind of transformational change is a disaster for Republicans, of course, and they are understandably freaking out about it. In a recent interview with Fox News, House Speaker Mike Johnson lamented, “The way I describe it in summary is there are mini-Mamdanis popping up all around the country…They’re openly about socialist, Marxist ideology.
“This is something that we have never seen before in American history. This is about moving away from a constitutional republic to a communist utopian ideology. And that’s a dangerous thing for the future of the country.”
Conservatives have spent decades spreading hysterical propaganda about the inefficiency of government and how we can only ever accomplish anything meaningful by giving taxpayer handouts to corporations. But Mamdani is proving at breakneck speed that so much of what we loathe about American society today — the very things that make our lives needlessly harder and more miserable — is a direct result of policy choices made by Republicans who couldn’t care less about ordinary people.
Mamdani actually cares about New Yorkers, and he’s proving it. Every day. A better future is possible…if we elect progressive Democrats willing to fight for it!
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