New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, once a figure of contention among leaders from both major political parties, has seen a remarkable surge in his political standing just six months into office.

The 34-year-old democratic socialist, a prominent figure on the progressive left, has garnered unexpected praise from both Donald Trump and New York Governor Kathy Hochul.

He has also emerged as the face of the region’s sports renaissance. Now, days before New York’s primary elections,

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    you know mamdani is still a democrat right? He is still approved by the richoids of america, y’know the guys who’ve been terrorizing the world for decades, and he already gave up on being anti cop. Ultimately guys like him are just there to fool you that the system can be change by voting, doing slight improvement so the system survives until it can take those improvements away.

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        It’s just a show. He is still there, not to mention Bernie sanders is also a Zionist who turns American rage at the system into votes for democrats. I mean come on, Zoharan said he’d defund the police, where is that now?

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      The system has improved by voting. Like, take a quick gander through history. We’re in a down trend right now, and we need to fight, and fight to improve the system, but to deny that the system can change by voting is to deny history

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        No, the system never ever improved by voting. It only ever improved in response to fear of revolution, and any “improvement” through voting was nothing more than a temporary concession, Britain used to be the face of social democracy then Thatcher came and since then standard of living has been constantly getting lower, Obama brought Obama care(which was absolutely not enough) because Occupy wallstreet happened, then trump came and gutted it. You can’t change and improve a system that’s built to keep you down, by working from inside of it

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      liberals are going to be shocked when his successors revert everything good he’s done, as always