Former DNC chair Jamie Harrison on primary night said: "If you hate the Democratic Party, then please don't run for our nomination."
Mayor Mamdani responded:
"The question that I come back to is 'What is the Democratic Party if not its voters?'"
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When someone says that God told them to kill a person, we call them a psychopath. When a nation says that God told them to kill millions of people, we call them Israel.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani just did something his critics swore a socialist would never do: cut fines, fees, permits, and red tape for small businesses.
More than 50 reforms will make it easier for restaurants, bodegas, barbershops, retailers, and drivers to operateโincluding killing the absurd second permit restaurants need just to serve ice cream.
Less bureaucracy. Lower costs. More time running the business.
That is what competent government looks like.