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. 
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.