Mamdani’s camp is tracking Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s challenges and trying to avoid repeating his missteps, according to a person close to both Mamdani’s and Johnson’s teams.
The annoying thing about that is that progressives are expected by the media to make no mistakes, but the right gets a pass on continuing gross incompetence and deliberate sabotage.
And progressives, by definition, are trying new things. Some aren’t going to work. Fail early, fail often should be the expectation, but when that happens, progressive leaders need to remain directionally correct and must be competent at not only executing new plans but pulling the plug on failures.
Anyway, a lot of this is Chicago-specifiic. Chicago governance has been a dog’s breakfast for a very long time.
The annoying thing about that is that progressives are expected by the media to make no mistakes, but the right gets a pass on continuing gross incompetence and deliberate sabotage.
And progressives, by definition, are trying new things. Some aren’t going to work. Fail early, fail often should be the expectation, but when that happens, progressive leaders need to remain directionally correct and must be competent at not only executing new plans but pulling the plug on failures.
Anyway, a lot of this is Chicago-specifiic. Chicago governance has been a dog’s breakfast for a very long time.