This "Democratic party has low approval" thing is a canard. The Democrats have low approval because Congress has low approval and because the Democratic base is angry we're fully out of power right now. Many of the people responding to polls saying they disapprove of the party would crawl across broken glass to vote for them in the midterm general.

Abughazaleh has 0 experience governing. To claim that she is actually interested in delivering public services when there is literally no evidence of that is laughable. There were 2 other candidates in this race from the insurgent left as you call it, both were local and have experience governing. If the insurgent left voters backed either of them they very likely would have won. Instead they backed a tiktok clown and it cost them.

>> because those politicians are actually interested in delivering public services to their constituents.

You sure about that?

How does letting 20+ homeless people die in freezing temperatures deliver them public services like shelter when severe weather bombards the region? Or get the roads properly plowed out and the garbage taken care of after a horrible blizzard? Mamdani already failed in delivering even the most basic of services to its constituents. How do people not realize this is the guy they were voting for?

Its also one thing to talk about delivering public services to the constituents. Its quite another to explain how you intend to pay for such luxuries when the city and the state already have copious amounts of duplicitous public services that would cover such initiatives already. Why would you need a free grocery store when there are hundreds of free food shelfs and non-profits that offer free meals in the city?

You may have misunderstood my point.

I'm not discrediting anything except the notion that this was business as usual and the winners were as expected.

The article was simply the first I found as reference (could not remember the original source I read about this) and I make no comment on its bias.

This is starting to get into 2015 "nothing to see here, Donald Trump will never win" levels of denial.