Mayor Zohran Mamdani is quickly learning that governing one of the world’s largest cities is a lot harder than criticizing it from the outside.
Mamdani, nicknamed the “smiling socialist,” has moved quickly to try to implement many of his most aggressive agenda items. While saying he wants to represent all New Yorkers, on a recent New York Times podcast, he said “my party is the Democratic Party, and my organization is DSA.”
As a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, his allies include DSA co-chair Megan Romer, who over the weekend confirmed the organization’s priorities: Abolish the Senate, abolish ICE, abolish prisons and ultimately do away with American democracy as we know it…