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And it's getting harder to distinguish. I mean... look at Jasmine Crockett, since Mamdani's win, liberals have started cosplaying as progressives. You can tell, because the only thing they do is point out the problems, but never propose a solution, while people like Bernie and Mamdani didn't stop with pointing out "healthcare and housing are expensive", they ran on actual solutions like medicare and rent-freezing.
If I had a dollar for every time a Republican friend told me, “how are we going to pay for these things” with it acknowledging the progressives have solutions for that.
Meanwhile, they didn't bat an eye at the I.C.E. budget.
Or the record setting defense budget
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/18/headlines/senate_overwhelmingly_approves_record_901_billion_military_spending_bill
Ok how does a mayor solve cost of living and medical issues. I'm not American do Mayors there have special powers?
Mamdani ran on making the buses free [at point of use, in case someone felt the need to argue this], creating city owned groceries stores to close food desert gaps and provide competition to keep prices down at private stores, and doing something to stop landlords forcing people out of their rent controlled apartments.
Most of which is within a mayor's power
they can't directly. but indirectly they can have local tools to reduce costs. foremost is to increase supply. other ways would be tax credits/abatements, city-sponsored clinics, etc.
they can't solve it, but they can reduce costs. the problem, however, is often such programs are politically very unpopular and the voters tend to get bent out of shape over their 'unfairness'.
Bernie ran on medical issues, Zohran ran on cost of living and housing. https://www.zohranfornyc.com/platform