He’s going to win. He’s the best option. That doesn’t mean I have to be happy about it, and since I currently pay more for my daughter’s half of a 600sf 4th floor walk up on the Lower East Side than I do for my mortgage in Austin, I have skin in this game.
What you don’t understand, apparently, is that the entire Mamdani phenomenon IS the status quo of Housing in NYC, repackaged for TikTok.
Promise to defend it either way, please. I know you guys are watching the details super closely. I mean look at this:
Bravo- this is a super relevant point of comparison. So Mamdani is the opposite of Trumpism? So the tide turns here? Do I have that right? Does that mean NYC is a microcosm of America? Great stuff. You should be on Joy Reid’s podcast or something.
Time. We lose time to deal with the housing shortage in New York. I’m not sure what you lose. Probably nothing.
But that’s the American Progressive in a nutshell: the privilege to fail without consequence.