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This already counts as socialist?
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I don't want to fall into the trap of hero worship but yeah, this seems like what mayors should always be doing.
I don't think it's hero worship. There are 1,616 mayors in the United States; the fact that there's basically one who's doing his job, and that he happens to be the one at the helm of the biggest municipality in the country, is noteworthy.
Put another way, the respect and esteem owed to the mayors of the USA is just all being piled onto the only high-visibility one who actually deserves it.
I don't think it's hero worship to recognize the apparently amazing job Mamdani is doing, either. I'm just very wary of falling into the hero worship trap.
Random question but where are you getting that 1,616 number for number of mayors in the USA? That is way too specific to be an approximation but also feels way too low for the number of cities and towns in the US with municipal governments structured in such a way that they have a mayor/city executive
The 1616 is for towns over 30,000
https://cawp.rutgers.edu/facts/levels-office/local/women-mayors-us-cities-2024
Oh dang, you're right. I remembered the 1616 number because it's the Marvel number with a 1 in front, and I forgot it was just for bigger cities.
I had it in my brain from a research deep dive I had gone into at one point (in all honesty because of the Marvel Comics number) and forgot that it was just for big cities and towns.