DSA is exploding in membership and political influence so I don’t know where you’re getting your last idea from.

The former idea, yeah maybe but I see this view as very cynical, like, “he’s probably just going to give up on these ideas so I’m going to give up first.” I don’t agree with that, and I don’t see the counter suggestion - “class struggle”? Should the streets run red with the blood of the proletariat, while the bus fare rises? I also don’t see how city-operated grocery stores, a political idea I have not heard from any USian political candidate with a lead in the polls in my lifetime, “makes their world smaller”.

I just fail to see the real world connection between your prognostications and the actual things a mayor has the power to do that this guy says he is going to do if elected, which currently he is the favorite for, because of the material changes he is running on

If he is a chickenshit he deserves to be castigated, if he is kneecapped by Democrats I think it will only increase their general disdain, if he actually does the shit he says he will with the power he will have then material good will come of it. Personally I’m rooting for the latter.