Random Musing: Why Zohran Mamdani will find it hard to be another Barack Obama | World News - The Times of India

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : In a presidential race, his Israel record would be on loop in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia.
53% : His project is to prove that a Muslim socialist can run the capital of capitalism and have the sky remain intact.
49% : His campaign is built on an affordability crisis that is genuinely apocalyptic here: freeze the rent on nearly a million rent-stabilised apartments, make buses free, promise universal childcare funded by higher taxes on the rich.That programme speaks directly to tenants in Queens, overworked parents in Brooklyn and young professionals wondering why they need three roommates and a side hustle just to afford groceries.
48% : He is an open democratic socialist who talks about rent freezes, public housing, free buses and taxing the rich, rooted in years of movement work around foreclosure, taxi debt and Palestine activism.
48% : Mamdani walks into the same minefield wearing a DSA badge and a keffiyeh.The Israel Factor: New York Exceptionalism Then there is Israel-Palestine, the issue that has turned Mamdani into a folk hero on the left and a bogeyman for much of organised Jewish America.His record as an anti-Zionist activist is not a footnote.
41% : In an America shaped by 9/11, Gaza and Trump, that is a double burden in national politics.In New York, a critical mass of voters hears "Muslim socialist" and thinks: finally, someone speaking to tenants and immigrants.
39% : The city's unique mix of anti-Netanyahu liberals and transactional machines gives him enough space to be radioactive on Israel and still viable.That is not the country.
34% : He has defended the phrase "globalise the intifada," accused Israel of genocide and apartheid, and once said the NYPD boot "has been laced by the IDF."In New York, this hasn't destroyed him.
25% : A line that energises Brooklyn leftists becomes electoral napalm in suburban synagogues.Obama calibrated his Israel criticism carefully enough to drive Netanyahu mad while keeping AIPAC on side.
11% : If a former vice president with the full weight of the party behind her cannot replay the Obama script, the idea that a Muslim socialist mayor from Queens will do so in a harsher climate starts to look like fan fiction.Islam, Socialism and the American Ceiling Obama's middle name was Hussein, and the right still tried to turn him into a secret Muslim.

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