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Welcome to Aikadap and Hear a podcast about things falling apart and how to put them back together again.

I am your host, Mia Wong.

So a week ago, we did some episodes about the election of Zoran

Mamdani and a lot of the very funny reactions to it. And, you know, on executive disorder,

we've talked about what this sort of means for politics. But now I want to do a slightly different kind of episode,

which is looking at the challenges that Mondamne is going to face, attempting to implement his

agenda, attempting to stay mayor, just taking him very seriously at his word in his attempt

to, you know, make the cost of living lower

and make people's lives better. And there are unfortunately very significant challenges to this

agenda. And those challenges are a mix of structural problems and, I don't know, the president of the United States, right?

We're going to focus on a few of them today. And before we really start this, I think, I want to

start this to some extent with the conclusion. And the conclusion of this episode is not to say that these things are impossible,

right, and to not say they can't be done. But it's to remind people that the way that actual

politics works, electing one person does not immediately make everything better, right? You can't

stop organizing because someone has been elected. And in fact,

if you actually want to see the things that you organize to, you know, happen by electing this person,

you have to organize even harder once they are in power and mobilize even more to allow the

things that you fought for to actually happen, because there are significant opposition

to anything, you know, getting better for anyone in this country, and that opposition is powerful,

well-funded, well-organized, and structural. And also, as we saw with the election of Aldani

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