Mamdani feels so refreshing because he's **an emotionally regulated man** who is unthreatened by other people.
Related: watching a gregarious public servant connect with other people and express joy and pleasure at helping is a gift.
One of the things I think is interesting about Mamdani is just the optics of a mayor who so thoroughly appears to be of and in the city at all times, you know? Like, what New York is doing, he is doing. It’s really different.