Mamdani promised to tax the rich. DSA is already mobilizing to make that happen.
Assuming he’s elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani won’t be governing alone.
“It’s not enough to just win one race. We need to understand that our politics is a politics of many, and that includes keeping the incredible champions that we have already in the state Legislature,” the newly minted Democratic nominee for mayor said on July 8, delivering remarks at a fundraiser in Astoria for state Sen. Kristen Gonzalez, his comrade in the Democratic Socialists of America and an early endorser of his mayoral campaign. “If you are excited by what we have achieved, if you have been a part of what we have achieved, know that you are also part of a larger movement, and that movement includes our incredible state senator,” he told the crowd.
That movement, and the support of Gonzalez and other state lawmakers backed by the DSA, could serve a crucial role for Mamdani if he becomes the city’s next mayor. To deliver on his ambitious and expensive campaign promises, he’ll likely need to rely on the assistance of the New York City chapter of the DSA, the socialist group that has helped power his campaign (and of which I’m a former member).
While the DSA’s current priority is supporting Mamdani in the general election, it has also begun sketching out a post-election plan to provide outside support to Mamdani once he’s in office. This strategy is deeply rooted in the DSA’s ideal of “co-governance” and envisions a broad coalition of Mamdani supporters and allied groups working in concert with the mayor’s office to pressure the state government to approve Mamdani’s proposals to increase taxes on wealthy New York City residents and use the proceeds to fund free buses, universal child care and city-owned grocery stories.
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