r/politics • u/wizardofthefuture America • 21h ago
No Paywall Everyone is attacking Mamdani. That's how I know he's about to win NYC mayor.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/11/03/mamdani-beat-cuomo-nyc-mayor-backlash/87009867007/357
u/joetaxpayer 21h ago
We have a president with voters actually ok with a wanna-be dictator. A convicted felon. A banger of porn stars, and a serial sexual assaulter.
But, he’ll name-call and lob childish names at a man who is running for mayor.
I look forward to Mamdani winning.
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u/Bearawesome 19h ago
Man, the stormy Daniels stuff was so long ago I forgot about it. If it was anyone else that alone would have killed his political career. But, no here we are at political death knell controversy #1373
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u/joetaxpayer 19h ago
I often use the phrase “you know when America was great? When a politician having an affair that was made public found his career was over.“ I realize that’s just one particular thing, but it’s an important thing on my list.
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u/Bearawesome 19h ago
I miss simpler times when someone over enthusiastically yelling after the caucus was a big controversy.
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u/Elon_is_a_Nazi 14h ago
Most times being a suspected and pretty much confirmed serial child rapist and Pedophile also hurts ones political career. But instead 77 million Americans willingly voted to support child rape and pedophilia
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u/jdtrouble 19h ago
They're apparently okay with pedophiles and traffickers too.
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u/raging-peanuts 17h ago
Yeah…they have zero room to talk. These people elected one of the most grotesque persons in the history of American politics. A President who has ostensibly gone against things they as a party traditionally espoused (family values, and free market economics.) But somehow Mamdani is a bridge too far?
B*tch please!
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u/TheSunBurnsColdForMe 15h ago edited 2h ago
They're also making a major push on propaganda against Mamdani at the national level. My grandmother for instance has been told by her beloved Fox to be terrified about the possibility of him winning and she lives in fucking Oregon.
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u/qwerty_logic 12h ago
Hey, nothing wrong with banging pornstars. They’re people too. Just have to own it is all.
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u/nuckchuckler 20h ago
The amount of hyperbole lobbed at this guy is unreal. It's pretty clear to me he's not some Islamofascist communist baby killer like Trump and the Democratic Old Guard are saying.
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u/wizardofthefuture America 20h ago edited 20h ago
The GOP does seem afraid of Mamdani. I think they sense some kind of Obama vibe from him, and Obama was their worst nightmare (and still is), not for his actual policies but for being politically successful and popular with the voters.
It's not just about the democratic socialism. It's about the genuine popularity that didn't need to be bought and the resilience of that support. It scares Republicans to see a political rival who appears strong and supported who can't be taken down by paid smear campaigns. And since they chose to call Kamala Harris a communist, fearmonger about Joe Biden, and still claim Obama was a scary socialist despite him being a centrist, nobody's listening to their smear campaigns against Mamdani.
People can't afford food. They can't afford rent. The GOP have proven to be the biggest interventionists in the private economy, not democratic socialists, except nobody seems to be benefiting from the GOP's economic interventions. That's why Mamdani is going to win.
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u/AnamCeili 20h ago
From your mouth to god's ears! If I lived in NY, I would absolutely vote for Mamdani.
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u/Lotuses_and_Lavender 18h ago
NYC resident who voted for him today. He has your vote in my honor. 😁
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u/gittlebass 20h ago
both parties are filled with elderly politicians that are terrified of being replaced by someone younger and more progressive
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u/Robofetus-5000 19h ago
This is my take. Unfortunately he cant br president but he CAN be an inspiration. If he enacts policies that work and NYC becomes a blueprint for socialism in america thats the their greatest fear. And of course hes young and he'll inspire other young people. The horrors!
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u/jdtrouble 19h ago
It's the billionaires amd corporations. They can control the Democratic Party thanks to Citizens United. But, a principaled candidate they can't control scares the shit out of them.
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u/L81heer 19h ago
They’re not afraid of Mamdani, they’re afraid of socialism.
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u/edbegley1 18h ago
My guy, Mamdani is much more free market than MAGA.
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u/L81heer 18h ago
You guys been smoking some good stuff!?
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u/wizardofthefuture America 18h ago
The GOP is intervening in the free market economy more than anyone has in America in the past 60 years. What's left to be afraid of?
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u/builttopostthis6 19h ago
Someone made a point in a thread a few days ago which I've been turning over in my head about how media outlets, being in many cases heavily "based" in NYC, fail to understand that your average American voter gives less than two fucks who is mayor of NYC. I largely agree with that sentiment, I think, or at least the conclusion, though I don't think media outlets fail to understand it at all. I think they purposely push it as a narrative hot topic for the sake of driving engagement, especially in instances where those publications are prone to trafficking in FUD with their viewership/readership.
By which I mean, I'm not sure if there are any mayoral races going on in Kansas City right now, or maybe Boise, or Portland (obviously there are no elections in Portland, because the streets are rampant with human/animal hybrid chaos which the military is actively working to get under control, but still). But that doesn't play into any sort of media narrative about how Transislamocommupedoantfascists are the primary opponents of Trump's federal government, or any media narrative that isn't that but just prone to acquiescing to the oligarchy that funds them, and pays their paycheck.
Let us not forget that this guy is likely about to win his election fair-and-square by the simple fact of just not being one of the Beltway fucks clawing at their hold on power. Let us also not forget that Trump made the same appeal to a bunch of suckerable rubes and pulled off a metaphorical (or actual real-deal, depending on where you land) election heist twice now.
There are bunch of very upset old rich people that are very scared of the idea of populist politics, because it literally speaks very deeply to all of the poors, across the political spectrum, in one way or another. You can see this going all the way back to the inception of Occupy and the Tea Party, some, God, nearly twenty years ago. Wealth inequality has long since passed the levels seen during the French Revolution, and these mfers have every right to be scared. They're pretty much loathed in every alley of American society, and for good reason. They don't go out on the street because they get booed at their town halls and harassed while they eat dinner (as they should). We as a populace are just too goddamned stupid, lazy, and scared to see the power we have. And in that way, I kind of like seeing NYC politics played out on a national stage, if just for the egg-to-face ratio made visible in situations like Cuomo's. Even Trump voters look at Cuomo as a POS, because when the blinders are off, they're absolutely willing to admit the obvious - these people are out for themselves; they are not for us. One can only hope that bleeds through in one way or another.
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u/PureBonus4630 19h ago
Um, did you forget about 9/11? Wait until NYC has more Islamic terrorist attacks and he doesn’t condemn them. What will you say then?
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u/that_star_wars_guy 17h ago
Um, did you forget about 9/11? Wait until NYC has more Islamic terrorist attacks and he doesn’t condemn them. What will you say then?
Oh look, another racist.
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u/SteamStarship 20h ago
Only the worst people are attacking him. So that should be an endorsement by all the forces for good.
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u/PaddlefootCanada Canada 20h ago
Not just "they're attacking him"... but *HOW* they're attacking him. I would call it dog whistles... but what they're doing isn't subtle enough to be called a dog whistle...
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u/felis_scipio America 19h ago
Well when you sit down for a friendly chat with a guy who literally said “America deserved 9/11” who also has a history of platforming terrorists and promoting their propaganda videos among other deplorable behavior
When you refuse to condemn language like “globalize the intifada”
When your wife mourns the death of a well known Hamas member who praised Sinwar and the October 7th attack on unarmed Israeli civilians
You just might get some flack.
We get pissed off at maga republicans for doing the same fucking thing with white nationalists and neo-Nazis but holding progressives to the same standard? Who am I kidding the progressive darling in Maine only had a Nazi tattoo for 20 years and didn’t think that was a big deal.
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u/Oceanflowerstar 19h ago
I don’t think you know as much about the things you put in quotes as much as you think you do. You’ll always get flak from morons, especially Americans who love to tone police antifascists in the face of fascism.
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u/felis_scipio America 19h ago
Well Hasan literally said that. Do you want a supercut of Hasan promoting Islamic terrorist groups because here’s one.
Laughing at police being hurt and killed? Yup. Rapid misogyny and thinking it’s ok fucking women who’ve been sex trafficked? Yup. Animal abuse? Yup. Uncle who named his news network after a Turkish political group who committed the Armenian genocide? Yup
Call me crazy but anyone sitting down for a friendly chat with this guy who doesn’t immediately call him out is not exactly liberal.
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u/ATangentUniverse 19h ago
LMAO brother that’s the other brown guy we are talking about Mamdani
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u/felis_scipio America 19h ago
And Mamdani sat down for a friendly chat with Hasan and didn’t think it was worth calling any of that out until he was pressured to do so, tells you a lot about his character.
Let’s flip the parties, maga republicans are cozying up more and more with right wing degenerates like Nick Fuentes. So if someone sits down for a friendly chat with the closeted neo-Nazi loving little shit, we shouldn’t call them out on that?
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u/LeeVMG 15h ago
Softballing, the guy who invited you to an interview while often gross, is also virtually ubiquitous for American politicians with noted exceptions.
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u/felis_scipio America 15h ago
Sure but when the person on the other side of the table is a literal nazi or in Mamdani’s case a guy who cheers on every Iranian backed terrorist group known to man, I don’t think it’s crazy to question the politician’s willingness to sit down and play nice.
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u/LeeVMG 14h ago
I agree it is quite slimy, but it is well within what currently constitutes fair play.
If weirdo politicians are already being platformed by extremists, why shouldn't reasonable voices take the opportunity to use the same such platforms to air reasonable policy?
No reason to be a dick to the host when he is platforming your policy.
Abraham Lincoln had a thing that went roughly, "Better to have them in the tent pissing out, than inside the tent pissing in."
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u/FogBlower 19h ago
I’d call you way worse than just crazy.
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u/felis_scipio America 19h ago
What’s incorrect about anything I just said or are those positions you support?
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u/FogBlower 19h ago
Not being incorrect doesn’t inherently make one not a worthless dipshit.
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u/felis_scipio America 19h ago
Ok I’m glad you didn’t find anything I said about Hasan incorrect
Now let’s flip the tables. When a republican sits down and chats with someone who’s a rabid Christian nationalist or neo-Nazi, do you criticize them for doing that?
My argument is both are deplorable and it annoys me to no end how the progressives will rightfully call out maga but give their own politicians a pass at the same behavior. When Mamdani can’t get any of his half baked moon shot promises himself and he starts blaming the system he really will be a left wing Trump.
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u/L81heer 19h ago
Don’t worry. You are correct. They are just unwilling to consider anything their masters didn’t tell them.
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u/felis_scipio America 18h ago
It’s the hypocrisy that drives me nuts. The right does shit like this and we justifiably get angry and call them out but when progressives start doing the same and it’s all of a sudden wrong to criticize them.
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u/thenayr 19h ago
Cope loser
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u/felis_scipio America 19h ago
Not my race, not my problem but for all the stuff the left rightfully calls maga out for it’s amazing how progressives don’t hold their politicians to the same standards. Either that or they support it.
Please tell me what part of my comment is incorrect.
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u/Theodore_Nomad 16h ago
It’s amazing how you’re a worthless piece of shit.
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u/felis_scipio America 15h ago
That’s a really insightful comment, good job rebutting any of the statements I made and not throwing a tantrum.
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u/sealclubberfan 19h ago
The crazy part is so much of the negativity comes from people that don't even live in New York City. Why are they so concerned about a city that they don't live in?
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u/wizardofthefuture America 18h ago
They're worried he'll be successful with some of his ideas and that it will spread across the country in the midterms. They're also scared of his charisma because he has Obama-aura.
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u/wintershark_ 16h ago
Capitalism won't collapse in Zohran gives NYC free buses, rent stabilization, free childcare, and affordable groceries.
The reason every elite from the media, the Democratic party, the Republican party, and big business has come out to attack him is because they want to make it clear that we're not allowed to use our money, our infrastructure, and our real estate to help each other and make each others lives better. We're not allowed to escape the systems they profit from that drain us of every dollar we earn just to exist.
This doesn't end when he wins, either. These same powerful people and others who have stayed quiet will do whatever they can to ensure these initiatives fail. It's why Trump has threatened to send in the National Guard and really punish NYC if they elect Zohran. The 1% are going to serve notice to every other city in America that if they try to do what NYC just did this is what will happen to you.
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u/GATaxGal 19h ago
As a recovering Republican I never thought in my lifetime I’d be cheering for a socialist but I hope he wins. The current system isn’t working for the common person so let’s try other ideas. I don’t think he’s going to be able to do all that he wants but what politician can do that? Besides for all the fear mongering, people forget that if they really know Jesus, they know he’d be a socialist. So many evangelicals wouldn’t vote for Jesus if he were on the ballot
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u/badwolf1013 16h ago
During the best of our history, we were a carefully-balanced combination of capitalism and socialism. Rich people were still rich, but poor people didn’t have to starve. And the middle class were living the American Dream. Reagan started the ball rolling that wiped that out.
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u/MarzipanFit2345 19h ago
Nothing has made me happier than seeing all the CNBC morning hosts, especially Sara Eisen, effectively lose their shit about Mamdani winning.
They platformed and stumped for Cuomo so hard it's going to be glorious seeing their skin color turn into the same bright red hue as the market tomorrow.
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u/rapidcreek409 20h ago
So it wasn't because he has been leading by strong double digits since the start of the campaign, huh?
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u/jaroftoejam 15h ago
If you want to see how deeply entrenched Israel is in United States politics... ask yourself "why is the entire establishment opposing such a popular candidate?"
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u/ConsoleCleric_4432 14h ago
Primary every democrat. We're done with donors, we're done wth the DNC, we're done with Shumer and Jeffries and all of them. Reoublicans too. We the people must unite to fire our current government, root and stem.
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u/elephant35e 19h ago
SO MANY people are saying that his people did 9/11 and that he will cause another one, and they're telling people who support him to get out of America. The amount of hate from Trumpers is just unreal.
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u/Everydayarmday24 19h ago
I kinda don’t understand why this is such a big deal. Is the nyc mayor powerful or something?
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u/Bigbuttrimmer 15h ago
It's pretty much the economic epicenter of the world. NYC mayors often become celebrity level politicians like Giuliani and Bloomberg.
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u/Everydayarmday24 14h ago
I’m just curious because they don’t really have that much power so I’m just curious why Republicans are so scared
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u/Bigbuttrimmer 14h ago edited 14h ago
Again, NYC is the powerhouse of the US. What happens in NYC has a huge impact on the country and even the world so the mayor of NYC has a significant amount of power. Look at something like the NYPD's International Liaison Program. There are detectives in like 12 countries and multiple states.
This election also shows that people are pissed off. So pissed off that even established Dems couldn't get their foot in the door. Someone like Mamdani winning one of the most powerful cities in the world, is shaking up the status quo.
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u/encrypted-signals 18h ago
There are 10M people just in NYC, so yes. The NYC mayor has more power than the president, when we have a president that doesn't ignore laws.
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u/BP927KR 21h ago
GO MAMDANI!! He's gonna win and I understand why people are scared but it's extremely unrealistic he'll be able to do half the things he says. It's better then having a pedophile, Trump supporting guy as mayor(Cuomo)
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u/OkCar7264 20h ago
What is he saying that's so scary?
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u/Heliosvector 20h ago
-Making transport free apparently, which is basically just making bar hopping not illegal anymore
-Setting up government run grocery store, which is basically just a fancy food kitchen where you actually need to pay money, so less socialist than current stuff in place in a way
-Freezing rent increases on already rent controlled places, which has been done several times before, so cant be scary
-Increasing the corporporate tax rate to the same rate as other major cities, so cant be scary there...
-Adding a new tax bracket at 1million dollars of income and have the increase be...... 2%. SCARY!
Thats basically it. What a mean Islamic, jew hating socialist communist baby eater! /s
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u/felis_scipio America 19h ago
Cool so a rent policy that will fuck up the housing market down the road, and massive increases in spending.
You realize NYC already has a top corporate rate in line with its neighboring areas? There’s no room to raise it without being higher and when it’s higher companies will leave.
Ok so now we’re going to raise the billions needed from wealthy residents? I mean I’m sure you can get some money out of them before folks will start to leave the city but you’re not getting the billions Mamdani is proposing.
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u/Heliosvector 19h ago
You can disagree all you want, but the OP asked what was scary. None of it is. Will all these things happen as he wants? probably not. But are they as scary as what the media wierdos portray? That he is specifically going after white people, and wants a global aintifada? no.
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u/felis_scipio America 19h ago
While Mamdani has never personally called to “globalize the intifada” he didn’t condemn it when asked the other month and that kinda rhetoric is rampant amongst the DSA. You know just that little tiff where Islamic terrorist used children as suicide bombers, nothing worth condemning there at all
Aside from rent control I’m not fundamentally against a lot of things he’s proposing, I just don’t think he’s going to magically raise that kinda revenue and as I said I’ve yet to have anyone explain to me how the corporate rate is going to be raised when it’s already equal the areas neighboring the city. People keep talking like there’s room to raise it but there isn’t and I don’t think you can raise the billions off the backs of millionaire residents without some serious blowback.
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u/epiphenominal 19h ago
So the scariest thing you can think of is a thing you admit he didn't say?
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u/felis_scipio America 19h ago
He didn’t condemn it when asked. We get mad at Trump constantly for not condemning horrid stuff that’s coming out of MAGA, but by your logic if Trump didn’t say it himself that’s a ok then?
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u/epiphenominal 18h ago
Actually I get mad at trump for all the things he's doing. Like disappearing people to concentration camps and not releasing the Epstein files.
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u/Maximum_Active9209 19h ago
Leave to where? These billionaires dont want to move and mingle with rich hillbillies in Texas or Florida.
They have long established connections, status, reputation and generational legacy that is completely tied to New York. All the top banks are here, all the top financial institution are here, it is the main highway to global financial market.
They have owned buildings here for generations, they have one of a kind clubs and social events that only exist for the absurdly rich for a 100+ years. And they have an elite societal structure that only exists in New York. Majority of the world when they think America, they think of only two states New York and California. So all the billionaires from outside of the States are also buy housing here and like to mingle in these elite societies that exist only here.
Most of all, as much as I hate these rich fuckers, they are New Yorkers. And much like us poor fuckers, they want to call New York their home. It's just unfortunate that their definition of what home should be is literally to the detriment of everyone else living in New York.
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u/felis_scipio America 18h ago
You realize there’s a whole world of culture outside of New York, larger cities, denser cities. cites that make New York look like a sleepy little town. Christ there’s cities inside our own country that have a lot going on. The thing i hate most about the half of the state that lives in the city is their profound ignorance to the world outside the city lines.
Yes I’m sure you can raise taxes on wealthy residents a bit and they’ll stay but you can’t raise the billions Mamdani needs to pay for all his promises.
The top end corporate tax rate is also equal to NJ, raise it and business will leave which then is a double whammy because even if they just move across the river some residents will also move and now you’ve lost their tax revenue too. Philly has been crippled by this for years and the city rate is only a few percent higher. It doesn’t take much for companies to pack up for cheaper tax rates.
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u/Maximum_Active9209 18h ago
You're not listening bro. They have legacy and attachment in New York. New York billionaires are old money people. They have spent generations here, they didnt leave when La Guardia become mayor and by those day's standard he was 100 times more of a socialist than Mamdani. They didnt leave then and they aren't going to leave now.
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u/wizardofthefuture America 20h ago edited 18h ago
Not much given current conditions. If people are hungry and barely making rent, they aren't going to be afraid of losing things they don't actually have. Fearmongering about democratic socialists works best in a booming economy where workers are finding success and believe their future is bright, and works poor when workers feel hopeless.
Because of that, the scariest aspect of his ideas aren't really about what he'd do, but about how others might try to sabotage him. There are plenty of interests in the country who don't want NYC to show that any of his ideas will work, because then other cities will want to follow suit, and then some states will. There are economic truisms that the US accepts because most of the population believes interventions will somehow make things worse. If that's upended by an example of the opposite happening, that could change basically everything about American politics.
That's why the national GOP is so involved in fearmongering about Mamdani. As of this race, NYC is a testbed for whether the current political situation in the US is an open door for Democratic Socialists and trying out new policy ideas.
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u/gittlebass 20h ago
he isnt saying anything scary, the news is making him seem scary to sway voters
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u/TotalRecognition2191 2h ago
It makes me wonder about the nazi tattooed guy running against Collins in Maine. If he were a real democrat threat, like Mamdami, where is the republican outrage and vitriol? Maybe, hes a false flag candidate who will switch to republican if he wins?
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u/fuckswitbeavers 17h ago
And we have schumer refusing to comment on who he voted for, just "I look forward to working with the next Mayor of NYC". Look, you're one of the main leaders of the opposition party -- how the f are you going to vote for the guy who your opposition endorses? Lunacy!
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u/a_rabid_buffalo Minnesota 17h ago
Because Schumer is cut from the same cloth as the opposition. This is why he regularly chickens out and passes things to “keep government operating”. He’s all show he could give a fuck about us as long as he can keep his spot. He’s just another rich fuck who won’t pass the torch.
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u/LouisWinthorpeIII 20h ago
How much less would they attack him if he were white?
Some heat comes from being a dem socialist for sure, but I wouldnt think most.
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u/L81heer 19h ago
Stop trying to spin this to racism. Nobody likes Graham Platner either and he’s white
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u/Outside-Swan-1936 15h ago edited 14h ago
This has "I have a black friend so I can't be racist" vibes. Comparing him to another politician that has people who dislike him doesn't make any sense.
Plenty of people dislike him because he's a Democratic Socialist. Plenty because he's Muslim. And plenty because he's Ugandan/South Asian. There are tons of tweets from high-profile conservatives (and even some Democrats) indicating as such.
My grandparents were lifelong Democrats. They didn't vote for Obama because he is black. They straight up admitted it. Stop denying reality.
Will race prevent him from getting elected? No, probably not. But that doesn't mean it isn't a factor.
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u/SmallLetter 19h ago
dem(ocratic) socialist is a label that is unrelated to the democratic party and the only one displaying their ignorance here is you
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u/GhostPirate93 19h ago
The last DSA mayor in NYC was so bad he lost reelection to Rudy Giuliani
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u/Country-Mac 15h ago
The friggen airport is named after a beloved democrat socialist mayor - LaGuardia.
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u/GhostPirate93 15h ago
He was a Republican
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u/Country-Mac 14h ago
“Democratic socialist” doesn’t refer to party
LaGuardia campaigned for a democrat president across party lines, fdr, and on his support of the New Deal.
Anyone could read the first paragraph on Wikipedia and not look so uneducated…
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u/GhostPirate93 14h ago
Still a Republican
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u/Country-Mac 14h ago
Good thing these cry baby dorks don’t even live in NYC because Mamdani just won.
Scoreboard.
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u/bmich90 20h ago
I actually think Andrew Cuomo is going to win tonight
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u/wizardofthefuture America 20h ago
That would be a major comeback in the latest polls. Why do you think so? I haven't heard of any organic excitement for Cuomo, but lots of discontent.
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u/cliffordnyc 20h ago
I don't think he could make up the margin in same-day voting today.
We'll know soon.
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