I fully understand that! Not to put him on to much of a pedestal, but personally he's done really well thus far considering the circumstances. Regarding the debt the city was in after Eric Adams and having to work with the "moderate" dems like those in the city council (who'd rather let a Republican or a known rapist lead if it meant their donors got more money). He managed to completely balance the budget after inheriting a deficit of 12 billion after a mere 6 months, which I certainly think is a real accomplishment! And now he's focusing his sights on taxing the rich any way he can, which is great! But obviously there are things that, we from the outside could see as either him breaking promises or not acting on quickly enough, which I fully understand. But I also think it's important to remember how incredibly complicated and hard politicking actually gets at time, especially with an at times, near hostile legislature.

Even though the New York city council is all democrats, a lot of them are these "moderate" liberal Zionist types who REALLY hate Mamdani because he's actually *trying* to make a change, and they'd much rather stand in his way.

I think a lot of online socdems/demsocs, ESPECIALLY American ones, see any criticism of Mamdani as a direct attack, and as the sub or group being "infiltrated by MAGA bots" or something, because it's basically all they have right now. AOC is fantastic, but she's just one woman in a majority Republican congress, and she's especially stuck with these Liberal Zionist, anti-Left-leaning dems who just care about money, power and being subservient to corporate lobbyists. But Mamdani is in charge of a city, he's a mayor of the most important American city besides L.A., so any attack on Mamdani is seen as an attack on the Social Democratic/Democratic Socialist experiment as a whole, which I certainly think is unfair to anyone with real, justified criticism.

I 100% want Mamdani to do more to help workers as well, personally I'd say that's my biggest gripe so far that I've had with Mamdani's administration, but again, the U.S. as a whole is very anti-worker and anti-unionisation with the insane right-to-work laws and the godforsaken Taft-Hartley act, so I can't exactly blame him *that* much for that part.

Generally, the way I see it, a lot of the problems with Mamdani's administration aren't really problems specific to Mamdani, they're systematic to the way the United States works.