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Winning is meaningless unless he does something with it. We'll see. If he fills his staff with Zionists like he promised then the win was irrelevant. If he makes transit free and food and housing accessible for everyone in new York, awesome. Remains to be seen
Brad whatshis face who co-campaigned with him is a zionist. You'd be hard pressed to staff the NYC government with zero zionists. he just said it in the dumbest way possible, which is an unforced error he has made several times.
I don't believe that savvy politicians like Mamdani make unforced errors. If you make a career out of careful word choice then you need to be held accountable for those words. If you're a good enough speaker to be elected mayor of New York you're good enough to not make dumb mistakes. So the safer assumption is that it wasn't a mistake, because if it was a mistake then how many of the good things he said were also mistakes? Did he just accidentally stumble his way into being mayor by lucking into the right words for months, or is he actually good at speaking and intentionally saying what he says?
Can't have it both ways. The only way to know for sure is to see what he does.
i don't mean in the moment. he's probably taking bad advice from dem lifers, especially post-obama phonecall. Errors in reasoning and strategy or appeasing the forces of evil are still moves i would call errors.
like the only one of his things that pissed off us that i think was well advised was the one where he doesn't want to be assassinated by the NYPD. everything else is unforced unless obama showed him a picture of his home from a drone or something we obviously wouldn't have any proof of.