Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten.
You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.
If the President can successfully order the IRS to hand over billions of dollars to his personal bank account, the Constitution is dead and no longer operative. I'm not kidding. We've crossed a kind of Rubicon and the social contract is null and void.
It was almost axiomatic, years ago, that a war of attrition would mean an eventual Russian victory. That is no longer the case.
Rawbraining it
And it might have gone that way for longer if she wasn't now also at the center of a bunch of sexual harassment allegations 😬