Mamdani is an outright, explicit Communist. He is solidly left, and there is no real debate about that.

And let's be clear: maybe NYC needs that, but pretending that he represents anything in the US liberal mainstream is a joke.

He is a democratic socialist. I didn't say he was liberal. I said he wasn't extreme left.

*To expand, Mamdani is moderate left. Extreme left, at least here in the states, would be actual communists and anarchists.

Is he? I thought he'd always claimed to be a democratic socialist. What has he said or done that makes him a communist? I only see a lot of other people labelling him as one as a lazy adhom.

It's not communism to support public-owned public services, even public-owned competitive services where no commercial competition exists. Capitalism in tight spaces, creates monopolies and market quirks that harm consumers, harm renters, harms tourists. These harms are toxic to NYC. He's right to address them.