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I'm not a usaian so I might be missing something but isn't the most radical thing this guy has said something like: "I think people who have literally too much money to spend should have too much money to spend (smaller) so we can feed people and give them medical care"?
Does the mayor of new york even have the power to move on that? I would've assumed they like direct bureaucracy providing infrastructure and chair council meetings and shit.
It's pretty cringe to see handwringing over this guy make it all the way over the Pacific. He's a mayoral candidate, for people outside his council area or whatever isn't this a huge nothingburger?
The establishment is worried that his success will spark a wave of actual progressive candidates instead of do-nothings who talk a weak opposition game and then cave under the slightest pressure.
It was extremely funny to watch the usa Democrats go from "trump is literally a fascist he will destroy America" to "welp, vote in four years folks. Follow evil directions until then".
Unless there's weapons to sell to a genocidal regime.
Centrists will never back down on that one.
The NYC mayor is pretty powerful in terms of both budget and political sway: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23626980