La sinistra europea si riversa a New York per prendere appunti sulla fulminea ascesa di Mamdani
https://www.politico.eu/article/zohran-mamdani-new-york-campaign-european-left/
di insane677
La sinistra europea si riversa a New York per prendere appunti sulla fulminea ascesa di Mamdani
https://www.politico.eu/article/zohran-mamdani-new-york-campaign-european-left/
di insane677
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maybe
1, stop kissing corporate ass
2, time for taxation equality
3, tba
4, near impossible without a free press
His proposals: [https://www.zohranfornyc.com/](https://www.zohranfornyc.com/)
* Freeze the rent.
* Free childcare until age 5.
* Free buses.
* non-Police taskforce dealing with homeless / drug addicts.
* City run subsidized grocery stores.
* Cracking down on bad landlords.
* More taxes on big corporations and super rich.
Nothing too radical, but it’s very big-city specific.
ok ok, but the political structure and voter base is not the same in the US and in general Europe
If the lesson is over promise, the European left doesn’t need to learn anything.
He dropped the woke and focused on affordability though which helps.
Don’t be a neo-liberal. Talk about affordability. When someone attacks you personally, respond by talking about affordability.
Zohran campaigned on policies that are radical for American cities. He also has advisors from Europe who introduced him to ideas like affordable bus programs that are considered alien by American standards. One of his staffers I met worked for Navigo/Île-de-France_Mobilités under Hidalgo and Pecresse.
For an European-like Zohran candidate, you need a vision that is more radical than what Zohran’s proposing. Something like universal train programs or something.
He was authentic in the eyes of voters. Ran a disciplined campaign (I haven’t seen a campaign this disciplined since Indias Modi in 2014 or Obama). His main contenders were extremely unpopular and seen as Trump stooges. He also clarified certain stances that may have worried voters initially. He was laser focused on specific issues that NYC residents face
Let’s not forget that his family as well included his mom being a respected movie director (which should have given him contacts needed to get the best PR people).
Not an NYC voter. In fact I was initially horrified by his candidacy (I’m right of center, but hate Maga so vote blue). But eventually, I now believe I would have voted for him in NYC if I was living there. What a campaign, well deserved and really happy for him and NYC. Obama moment.
Turns out the key is to actually do something for the “normal” people. How would have thought?
This is why the billionaires pumped so much money!
And I bet nothing is going to change, like Baltimore for few decades now have been electing democrats who promise to fix the city, but its not even close to being fixed.
Thats dumb.
Europes left need to be taking notes from the right. Not become the right, but learn from them what their strengths are and why they lost.
Mamdani has succeeded not because he is great, he has simply ridden the anti-Trump wave like the other Dem successes that just happened.
Again the lesson here is to again learn from why the right is losing its turnout.
Parties tend to lose when loyal supporters stay at home, rather than switch sides, although that is still important.
The left lost in the US because their loyal support abstained, and that apathy is likely because centrists didnt see or feel notable benefit from its policies or similarity of new Democrat identity did not feel like it embraced them (as average Joes). Biden also failed to communicate the benefits of his ideas.
Here the right has stayed at home since Trump is worse than expected and betrayed promises and the economy is suffering. Cehtrists who switched likely have switched back. The harder left has been very motivated to vote and turned up.
Didnt he post about wanting to defund the police a while back? What changed?
NY is not the whole USA and Europe is not America. Very little to learn and to me this could be even misleading, because fighting extremism with extremism here would mean vote for parties that follow the same agenda (written in Moscow).
Winning was the easy part, now he has to actually govern and prove that he can implement his goals, and actually have them work
Personally I think he’s doomed to fail. City run grocery stores is a fundamentally dumb concept, grocery stores already operate on razor thin margins without being hamstrung by needing to operate as a government controlled entity. And rent freezing has been proven to not work many times over
Meteors usually don’t rise, brah
Why? Mamdani’s campaign was very different than what neo-liberals do. This is not rocket science. Just how detached are they from the common people?
Guy is very relatable for the average person, he talks overwhelmingly about issues affecting everyone instead of focusing on issues affecting a few groups of people. He is also very charismatic and took a lot of time to talk with people on the street as if they were equal.
There’s nothing to study, elections are not that complicated. One party is elected, it governs for a time, people get tired, and then proceed to vote another party. Rinse, repeat.
Wait, so Europe have to take notes about social democracy, because in US they just realized there is such thing? What we shall do first – universal healthcare, regulations for corporations, workers rights, or something radical like paid maternity leaves?
The OP by my opinion just proves people in US no matter of political affiliation are in general idiots.