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I've never felt so vindicated as I have by Mamdani proving my major thesis about how the Biden administration failed prior to October 7th. Before Genocide Joe destroyed his presidency with his love of Mediterranean Rhodesia, his administration was the most progressive since at least LBJ and possibly FDR(the LBJ comparison is especially fitting). The Biden administration accomplishments were a long and varied list of good governance reforms and legitimately powerful, if largely procedural, fixes that were well targeted to help build political power among the coalition of the modern Dems. Stuff that made life materially better for everyday Americans in a lot of ways, many quite significant. And it basically didn't buy them a dram of popularity or an ounce of political capital. Biden's administration was politically limping long before he fully embraced genocide as national policy. Now we've got the Mamdani administration, which in many ways is almost literally just the good parts of the Biden administration but on a municipal level, doing the same kind of fairly modest reformism with the same kind of focus on good governance and trying to build power among the Dem coalition. But Mamdani is very popular and his administration's policies are seen as hugely appealing, at once innovative and common sense. So what gives? Is Mamdani just so charming and handsome? Public communication is the answer; Mamdani's video content is the modern fireside chat, which is literally the thing I said over and over the Biden administration was failing to do. You can't just do good things, you need to constantly be telling the public that you're doing good things, what the good things are, and what it means for them. You need to involve the public, and do *non stop* education. You need to act like every single day you're talking to someone who doesn't know literally *anything* about politics or policy, because you are absolutely doing that.