Free buses. Free child care. City-run grocery stores. Brand-new union-built, publicly subsidized housing.
Zohran Mamdani makes it sound so simple.
But the mayor of New York City isn’t a monarch. He can’t unilaterally do anything he wants.
Much of the job is drudgery — grappling with budget and legal complexities, hard trade-offs and bitter compromises.
Ideology and idealism must give way to pragmatic reality.
If Mamdani wins Tuesday, he’ll need to understand these details — and earn the cooperation of other leaders — if he wants to achieve even a fraction of his agenda.
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John Ketcham is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
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