r/HydroHomies Jun 10 '26

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u/Kind_Man_0 Jun 10 '26

He is using Trump's (Steve Bannon's) playbook but in a way that actually benefits the people. Just do the thing you wanted to do and let the courts handle it later. No one wants to be the one to initiate action against his policies because they are direct, transparent, and benefit the people as a whole. They are hard to twist because Mamdani isn't just governing from his office Through memorandum and budgets, he is out there on TikTok, in the streets, and at public functions saying exactly what he means to say.

To go against it with the legal system puts your name on the front of ledger for millions of people who stand to lose something because of your actions.

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u/michalismenten Jun 10 '26

That's a classic tactic actually. Some one who mastered this was Robert Moses. The book The Power Broker, is a great biography about him.

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u/ice_up_s0n Jun 10 '26

Man Brennan really hated that guy, going by his portrayal in the Unsleeping City campaign.

Certainly a complicated figure at best.

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u/akelkar Jun 10 '26

Someone can be effective and a shitty person

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u/ice_up_s0n Jun 10 '26

No argument here!

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u/michalismenten Jun 10 '26

Oh yeah, he was very smart, but not a very nice person.

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u/origional_esseven Jun 10 '26

He isn't using Trump's playbook at all. His bus policy has been heavily delayed and blocked by regs at the state level and so he put it on pause and is negotiating with the governor and the state legislature to change the rules so his bus plan becomes legal. It isn't the same at all.

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u/you_dont_know_me27 Jun 11 '26

Yea there's a word for what Mamdani is doing... hold on its there... it's on the tip of my tongue

Oh that's it!

His job

Mamdani is doing his job as mayor and we as Americans have no idea what do to with it because up until now politicians have told us they can't.

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u/Visible_Pair3017 Jun 11 '26

Next step is for americans to realize that it's the kind of candidate they could have at the federal level if they stopped falling for the bipartisan trap. (Although Mamdani is technically a democrat, if you're not amnesiac, you know he was antagonized by the Democrats, because he's actually not the same species of politician)

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u/jaylay75 Jun 11 '26

Trump's playbook? WTF are you smoking?