New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's popularity in the metropolis has surged since his election last month, according to a new poll.
Zohran Mamdani's popularity is surging in New York
https://www.newsweek.com/zohran-mamdanis-popularity-is-surging-in-new-york-11220922
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danc4498@lemmy.world · 203 pts · 257d
Weird how these progressive candidates keep having very high approval ratings while the moderates/secret Republicans get much lower approvals. Maybe we need to pick more of the progressive candidates.
Enkrod@feddit.org · 84 pts · 257d
And it's getting harder to distinguish. I mean... look at Jasmine Crockett, since Mamdani's win, liberals have started cosplaying as progressives. You can tell, because the only thing they do is point out the problems, but never propose a solution, while people like Bernie and Mamdani didn't stop with pointing out "healthcare and housing are expensive", they ran on actual solutions like medicare and rent-freezing.
danc4498@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 257d
If I had a dollar for every time a Republican friend told me, “how are we going to pay for these things” with it acknowledging the progressives have solutions for that.
Almacca@aussie.zone · 38 pts · 257d
Meanwhile, they didn't bat an eye at the I.C.E. budget.
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 255d
Or the record setting defense budget
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/18/headlines/senate_overwhelmingly_approves_record_901_billion_military_spending_bill
Auli@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 255d
Ok how does a mayor solve cost of living and medical issues. I'm not American do Mayors there have special powers?
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 255d
they can't directly. but indirectly they can have local tools to reduce costs. foremost is to increase supply. other ways would be tax credits/abatements, city-sponsored clinics, etc.
they can't solve it, but they can reduce costs. the problem, however, is often such programs are politically very unpopular and the voters tend to get bent out of shape over their 'unfairness'.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 255d
Mamdani ran on making the buses free [at point of use, in case someone felt the need to argue this], creating city owned groceries stores to close food desert gaps and provide competition to keep prices down at private stores, and doing something to stop landlords forcing people out of their rent controlled apartments.
Most of which is within a mayor's power
Enkrod@feddit.org · 3 pts · 255d
Bernie ran on medical issues, Zohran ran on cost of living and housing. https://www.zohranfornyc.com/platform
BrotherL0v3@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 257d
Nah bro we can pivot right and get moderates. Please bro just one more drift to the right I swear bro, we'll get the moderate republicans this time!
danc4498@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 257d
What if we became republicans? Then they’d have to vote for us!
korendian@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 256d
crusa187@lemmy.ml · 37 pts · 257d
Turns out people actually do like it when your policies are aimed at helping them do better, as opposed to robbing them of what little they have left.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · -3 pts · 257d
So, what you're saying is Newsom for president? Hillary?
I'm joking. You must want Biden!
Wigglesworth@retrolemmy.com · 9 pts · 257d
Alright mom, back to Facebook...
kurwa@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 257d
Found a bot
stormeuh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 257d
I think you forgot a /s and your downvoters seem to need it.
At least, that's what I hope, because that way your comment is a nice joke.
Fizz@lemmy.nz · -28 pts · 257d
Slight Progressive and liberal candidates are out preforming far left Progressive in majority of the races.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 19 pts · 257d
You can show your work on this right?
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 256d
examples? from, you know, actual life?
molestme247@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 257d
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 257d
molestme247@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 257d
molestme247@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 257d
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 257d
You clearly feel super strong about this which is very strange. Point out some candidates and you can compare how much they beat expectations vs how much the liberals beat expectations even in red districts they were suppose to lose.
I'm guessing you listen to "progressive" pundits who are actually mask on tankies.
First_Thunder@lemmy.zip · 38 pts · 257d
Had he even entered office yet?
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 257d
Not til the ball drops
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 257d
What to pre-pubescent testicles have to do with this?
lemmyseikai@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 257d
NYC has the ball drop at new year.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 257d
I was clearly making a joke.
Dagnet@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 257d
So like, do New Yorkers hold their balls until new years? Dont they get tired?
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 257d
That's where the Mandani socialism comes in.
howrar@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 257d
A burden shared is a burden halved
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 257d
Ayyyyyy
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 2 pts · 257d
ball drops ≠ balls drop
Johnmannesca@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 256d
My Bing Crosby karaoke request?
arc99@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 256d
Seems a little premature until he is sworn in and delivers on his promises
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com · 32 pts · 257d
Oddly enough I've seen the purported progressives on here already trying to claim he's bad on a few occasions.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 257d
Hate to break it to you, but people can lie about what they believe and who they are...
Especially on the internet.
huquad@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 257d
No one knows youre a dog on the internet
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com · 4 pts · 257d
Yeah, and the legitimate lefties out there are awesome and I hope they get their way.
Then there are the ones who preach disengagement because "both sides" / "blue-maga"...
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 257d
I mean, shits been fucked up largely due to neoliberals controlling the DNC...
That changed with the last chair electuon, and some people are genuinely ignorant of that fact. Others want people on the actual left to be disengaged for the next primary.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 256d
The DNC is neo-liberal, period. They are center right everywhere in the world.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 256d
You don't understand that the chair has complete control...
Otherwise when Obama was elected youd have been saying "the president" and holding Obama accountable for everything GW did before Obama even ran for president.
At least, I'm hoping the problem here is ignorance, like I said a lot of people are lying to depress Dem turnout in the next presidential primary.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 256d
I do understand that the DNC has complete control. We've seen many example of that, the most egregious being Bernie vs Clinton.
US society is fundamentally to the right and the DNC will keep it that way.
That creates an issue where changing the Democrat Party will take a long long time. So the better option would be a real left party, but that would mean that Republicans would be in power for a while, until the politcal landscape changes and stabilise with 3 parties. And that's not accounting for the DNC that will work against the newly formed party.
Denying that the DNC is neo-liberal to its core is deliberate ignorance.
Any prominent member that has an ounce of progressism has to fight the DNC at every corner to get through, like we've seen Mamdani.
Meanwhile, progressives should definitely vote for the Democrats. But this is a different issue. The vote turnout is terrible in North America (we have the same problem in Canada).
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 1 pts · 257d
I've never seen anyone here (or anywhere on the Fediverse) actually preach disengagement. Pointing out that both sides suck isn't preaching disengagement.
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com · 3 pts · 257d
Eh, tomato/potato, the 'genocide joe' mantra and then immediately turning that hate on Harris when he stepped down, essentially demanding an ethically pure option...
It all ends up in the same place, a disenfranchised apathetic public leaving the door open for the current shitshow whose voters eagerly embrace the terrible options they're offered. Perfect being the enemy of the less bad and all that.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 3 pts · 257d
Yeah that's not "potato potato" that's called fucking lying. Criticizing the options offered and preaching disengagement are two completely different things. It's completely possible to denounce genocide Joe and "nothing comes to mind" Harris and call not for less, but for more (and more radical) engagement. No way in hell, say, Uncommitted was "preaching disengagement," and if you feel the need to lie about people for opposing genocide you should seriously reconsider your beliefs.
Enkrod@feddit.org · 11 pts · 257d
Really? But he's basically a progressive dream come true? Maybe because his Trump visit? But he really did great there too.
aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com · 15 pts · 257d
PunnyName@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 257d
Reminds me, I need to finish Adam Savage's audiobook.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 256d
The only consistent thing about the left since its existence is infighting and self-sabotage.
Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 257d
There is absolutely room for criticism against Zohran. I wholeheartedly support that voting for him was still the correct choice and I hope he really does unleash significant progressive policy for NYC. I also believe he deserves the criticism for manufacturing consent for action against Venezuela and Cuba by calling their presidents dictators in the context of today's likelihood of attack against the former; and for his redundancy on pinning the Isntreali genocide of Palestinians on October 7th.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 255d
they are dictators. most of the world sees them as dictators.
whether or not that justifies military action is another question, but they are certainly not freely elected representatives, anymore than Putin is. And the countries that do recognize the legitimacy of their elections... are also dictatorships.
Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com · -1 pts · 255d
They definitely aren't freely elected. You can't have free elections when the US government is interfering in them by sanctions.
As stated in the memorandum on the sanctions in the office of the historian governmental website:
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 257d
Yes, because people are either good or bad, and thus everything they do is either good or bad. Depending of course on whether they are good or bad only.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 257d
Everyone sucks in their own, terrible way.
RalphFurley@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 257d
The Tankies are already calling him the next Obama
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 255d
i most see then angry he's not a far left communist and only a 'mere' social democrat.
Theprogressivist@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 256d
Then they aren't progressives.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 257d
Wait until he starts making policy. Then see if you’re still thrilled. We’v been disappointed in the past.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 22 pts · 256d
I'd rather have him fail on half of his policies than Cuomo implement all of his.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 256d
The optimist in me wants you to shut up but the realist in me knows that will be the true test.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 256d
Agreed. Sucks being a lib/progressive and being constantly disappointed in some way by your leadership. Meanwhile, the right sets everything on fire, including themselves, and parties like it’s 2099.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 255d
some things are more do-able than others. Free buses is easy. bringing down rents, not so much.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 255d
I’m more concerned with performative things like (hypothetically) making it ok to paint rainbow crosswalks vs. taxing billionaires or allowing ICE to go uncontrolled in the Boroughs.
ILoveUnions@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 257d
"making policy". Yes, the mayor. Who makes the laws. That mayor making policies.
UltraMagnus@startrek.website · 11 pts · 256d
Do you think that all a mayor does is send press releases and give the key to the city to the Powerpuff girls? In NYC especially, local government controls a lot
Soggy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 256d
What a mayor does varies rather a lot between cities.
UltraMagnus@startrek.website · 2 pts · 255d
You're not wrong (in my city, the "mayor" is basically another city council member with no extra powers, just the same voting power as the other council members), but I don't quite get what you're disagreeing with me on.
Soggy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 255d
Just pointing out that some people may have mayors that are more symbolic than anything so it's not unreasonable to assume the mayor of NYC is similar. I'm not disagreeing per se.
discocactus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 256d
But in NYC: Mayor of New York City - Wikipedia https://share.google/X5YRgBrWjdwhEK7o1
What does NYC's mayor control? A look at which powers the office does, and does not, hold. - CBS New York https://share.google/RCzPsITmolAMyzPPy
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 256d
The mayor of New York City makes policies that affect more people than the governors of all but the twelve largest states. More than the smallest ten combined. His policies affect almost as many people as live in the rest of New York State.
Mamdani is about to become a massively powerful figure in American politics.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 256d
Yes?
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 257d
Helps when you don't have billionaire-funded FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) blasted at you every day.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 3 pts · 257d
He did get blasted though.
edit: all that Muslim = 9/11 terrorist shit, fucking disgusting.
FE80@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 256d
Wonder how the Democratic party will ratfuck this guy.
SulaymanF@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 256d
They’ll block his policies and allow special interests to run attack ads, then will savage him in the next primary that he was ineffective at carrying out his policies.
miked@piefed.social · 8 pts · 257d
While I support him and agree his popularity is up, beware of the numbers in this article.
It switches between NY City polls and NY State polls.
xc2215x@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 257d
Good. The man deserves it.
PunnyName@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 257d
Ideally, he deserves it. But so far, he's done nothing, since he's not in office.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 3 pts · 257d
Glad to see you get up- not downvoted for this. I like Mamdani and I want to see him succeed, but so close after his election this doesn't tell us very much. Let's hope he walks the talk (as much as possible - I am a realist).
bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 257d
This is normal for someone newly elected. Hopes are high.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 1 pts · 257d
JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 254d
Even if he doesnt succeed i wouldnt blame it on him, the money behind thwarting his policies/plans is nothing to ignore.