Benjamin Tisch’s shot at Mamdani during the Met Council gala comes just two weeks after his sister accepted Mamdani’s offer to remain at the helm of the NYPD.
“The two of us will not shy away from the fact that we hold disagreements on certain issues … but I also believe that these disagreements are not only reconcilable, but they are the sign of a healthy partnership to come,” the mayor-elect said in an interview with The News last month.
These are the kind of ghouls you want to work with if your plan is to sabotage yourself out of the gate. 
Mamdani refusal to act against Tisch and her private army should have laid to rest any “leftists” hope of him enacting any real policy that could challenge the status quo.
This is my stance on Mamdani. I don’t really care about the latest thing he did or did not do, because he’s already done enough to prove to me that he’ll ultimately be ineffective. It sucks, but it’s entryism.
I’m pretty much the opposite. Until he actually gets into office, we’re just talking about takes.
He has committed to keeping Tisch as commissioner, that’s not just a take.
As others have pointed out, if you’re going to piss off the police, at least get in power first. His commitment isn’t indefinite, either, and firing her after an inevitable police screw-up could better minimize reaction.
he’s not in office yet and he needs to not get murdered by them lmao
Then he should probably not leave the person who seems to want him and everyone like him dead in charge of them lol.
Yeah great point firing her should be a priority when he has the legal authority to do so.
Would you want your enemies to know you’re coming for them? Or would you prefer them to be at ease?
I’m agnostic on the matter. It’s to be determined as far as I’m concerned. Some people say it’s to avoid a kind of first strike from the police, others say it’s obvious lib shit. Could literally be either at this point so all we’re doing is arguing about something we’ll have definitive evidence for soon enough.
That’s fair. It’s just that all the arguments for why it doesn’t matter that he’s been walking back rhetoric tend to feel like “he’s hiding his power level”. It makes much more sense that he was never actually very radical, and some of the people who supported him were, so that radicalism was projected onto him (not just by his supporters). I suppose, as you say, we’ll see.