what does age have to do with it? being young and charismatic with economically leftist policy ideas are all good things in my book.

So, I'm not a New Yorker who's spent many multiple months hearing over and over and on permanent loop regarding the pasts, presents and predicted futures of the various assorted candidates vying to become mayor of New York City. From where I am, the only thing I have heard repeatedly regarding Mamdani is in regards to his age and inexperience. Hence, my comment.

it's the authoritarian instinct that concerns me. the four ballot measures to increase executive power, the threats of police action against foreign leaders, the refusal to retract comments about global intifada, and i'm sure there are more that i haven't even noticed or thought of.

Definitely sounds concerning and indeed very Trumpian. In the future when the Right wingnuts attempt to lump all Democrats into those type categories, it seems to me like they're going to sound not unlike a group of gum-flapping hysterical hypocrites.

bloomberg was an authoritarian too, and we're still suffering under the yoke of his appointments and policy initiatives.

This obsession with authoritarianism definitely seems to follow a pattern wherein opportunist New Yorkers who are lifelong Democrats then run as Republicans.

we won't really know what kind of leader Mamdani is until the man is sworn in. then perhaps we'll find out just how serious those things are.

It doesn't matter what he does, Mamdani will be demonized and vilified by the Right wingnut fascists in the same racist and Islamophobic terms they hurled at "Barack Hussein Obama" because their tangible hatred for the "browns" literally knows no bounds. The conspiracy crazies in Congress and talking head nutjobs who praise the Mango Mussolini for the same qualities they worship and bow down like subservient helots in Trump will fall all over themselves to hang Mamdani in effigy, and they will thump their bastardized Trump bibles and wield their religion like a weapon. They will incessantly whine about their hatred for Democrats while they slavishly fall all over themselves year after year repeatedly in the service of Democrat Donald.

How freaking hysterical it was to recently observe the Trump Cult Zombies and Trump's Little Johnson literally berate Mamdani in terms that described their Orange Worship to a total "T." They are so intellectually ignorant, they have no idea they are projecting in the most hypocritical of terms.

Meanwhile, Fat Donny in orange clown face and fat tie to cover his fat body with his bulging fat cankles shoved into his 3-inch lifts claims hysterically that he is better looking than Mamdani. Quick... somebody check the deleted part of the interview for Trump discussing his Little Johnson and demanding a penis measuring contest but certainly not before bragging about a MOCA test that is administered for the purpose of determining dementia and not intelligence because pathological lying every time you open your fat trap is not a sign of intelligence but a definite hallmark of absolute nutjob senility.

But I digress.

My sincere best wishes to the citizens and the new mayor of your "little" city. :)

what does age have to do with it? being young and charismatic with economically leftist policy ideas are all good things in my book. it's the authoritarian instinct that concerns me. the four ballot measures to increase executive power, the threats of police action against foreign leaders, the refusal to retract comments about global intifada, and i'm sure there are more that i haven't even noticed or thought of. bloomberg was an authoritarian too, and we're still suffering under the yoke of his appointments and policy initiatives. we won't really know what kind of leader Mamdani is until the man is sworn in. then perhaps we'll find out just how serious those things are.

JL

Keep in mind that James Madison was 36 years old when he was the most influential delegate in drafting the United States Constitution and promoting its ratification; he had the help of this even younger lad, name of Alexander Hamilton and the "old man" John Jay.

New Yorkers... they get the job done. :)

I'ma take that answer as you New Yorkers also not wishing to watch your house burn down.

Good talk. :)

Sort of on topic I have a new (to me, anyways) name for “Establishment” and “Moderate” Democrats. They are the Republican wing of the Democratic Party.

That is a surefire way to lose a very large chunk of the Democratic Party. You win by addition and inclusion... not by subtraction and exclusion. Politics 101.

i don't like gerrymandering, even if it's done justly to counterbalance other gerrymandering.

Would it be too much to assume you have another solution to the problem? ;)

The problem being that if Donald Trump actually believed his own pathologically lying bullshit that he has (quoting him) "the best Polling Numbers that I have ever received," then he'd obviously have no need for Texas to perform some "cracking" and "packing" in order to create five more gerrymandered seats for him. Quite obviously, Trump is well aware he cannot win without the additional gerrymandering.

The most recent live polls (ahem, yesterday) reinforce the fact that the wannabe king definitely has polling numbers that are at historic lows... of which he is obviously well aware.

They say you "can't fight fire with fire," but as someone trained in how to actually do that very thing, it's referred to as "controlled burns," wherein intentional strategic "backfires" are set in order to burn away the fuel in the path of another fire, which then has limited fuel with which to burn down your proverbial house.

We Didn't Start the Fire

Trump's mentor is immortalized in Verse 3 after the term "Communist Bloc." So you can either sit idly by and allow the pyro to burn it down or do something about it, and Californians came out in full force to fight it.

Sort of on topic I have a new (to me, anyways) name for “Establishment” and “Moderate” Democrats. They are the Republican wing of the Democratic Party.

Appears you left coasters have turned out hugely and given Prop 50 about a 2-1 victory (when all the votes are counted)... another bloodbath.

I can already hear the WOTUS -- Wussy of the United States -- whining "woe is me" and claiming it's illegal because "mail in."

You ever heard the POTUS -- Pussy of the United States -- whining about the illegality of Utah's elections by mail? Rhetorical question.

Yay Californians and thank you for turning out bigly!

And it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of chumps. Yes on Prop 50 in California is looking pretty good; I should think it's already out of range to flip to No, but it doesn't seem to have been called as yet. Stay tuned.

There's simply no way to Trumpsplain or spin the absolute blowout that Republicans have been dealt all across the country by Democrats in today's elections (although expect the morons to attempt it).

In Virginia, Democrats have flipped 13 seats to Blue in the House of Delegates:

Dems: 64 (+13)
Reps: 36 (-13)

In Pennsylvania, all 3 Democrats on the PA Supreme Court have been retained by huge margins.

MAGA Cory Bowman, the brother of James Donald Bowman aka James David Hamel aka James David Vance aka J. D. Vance currently claiming to be "JD Vance," lost bigly and hugely in his run for Mayor of Cincinnati, OH... by almost 60 points.

The pendulum always swings back.

Did I say blowout? It's a bloodbath.