No? They won’t need to. Did Mamdani pay off the deficit in NYC by raising taxes or did he just make some of the rich pay some of their fair share? Taxing second homes and what not. I’ll give you a hint. It’s the latter.

After inheriting a $12 billion gap in the budget…while critics claimed the only possible way to balance NYC’s budget would be to raise property taxes or slash city services, his team “rejected that idea” and still managed to bring the deficit down to zero. “We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people,” Mamdani said in the video’s caption. “We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/91541683/how-new-york-mayor-zohran-mamdani-solved-the-citys-budget-crisis

I know it seems crazy to have politicians actually work for the working class but this is what it is supposed to look like.

Yes, I do. There is a reason that trump won and it’s not JUST racism and sexism. He speaks to those that know that the 2 party system is rigged and needs a change. His change is more grifting for his buddies, but his message was ‘outsider changing the system.’

Think about why so many 2016 Bernie bros had trump as their number 2 pick. How many of AOC supporters also voted for trump in 2024? She asked her voters because she wanted to know. It seemed like the same answer Bernie told the dnc.

They have abandoned the working class. That includes repubs. The working class knows the system is rigged and wants a change. Not everyone in the working class knows what the change looks like, but they know the system isn’t working for them.

Pussies can take a pounding though. These guys fold after trump yells at them.

in order to win, he has to move beyond the traditional Democratic base. To do this, he has to adopt more centrist views in order to attract independents and Republicans.

How many times does this need to be proven false before people start thinking that “courting the centrists” don’t work?

He needs to focus on social programs and helping the working class. You know those crazy non-centrist, non-right policies.