Also a bit like itself in the late 1920s/early 1930s. Housing and infrastructure problems, party loyalty/pay-to-play in hiring, Jimmy Walker-like figures (as others have noted), plus the manifest factions noted below. Austerity turns parties into machines, which then eat themselves alive.
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Andrew Sabl
NYC politics is starting to look like Ontario politics: because the socialists and the centre-left split the opposition, the centre-right grifter gets in.
(Yes, ranked choice makes a difference, but only if centre-left voters fear the grifter more than the socialist—clearly not the case here.)
(Yes, ranked choice makes a difference, but only if centre-left voters fear the grifter more than the socialist—clearly not the case here.)
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