Mamdani is also the beneficiary of a $1.3bn windfall due to an accountancy error last year, so he has a one-time slush fund to play with, and the rest of the policies are paid for by deferring things like reducing classroom sizes to some nebulous point in the future and by one-time grants from Albany designed to shore up his standing.

He’s not god, he’s just the wizard behind the curtain like all the others.