Zohran Mamdani [9] hasn't even taken office, and already there has been a physical skirmish [10] between ICE agents and NYPD cops in Washington Heights. This portends a full-on confrontation between federal and municipal power [9] in the months to come—with the potential (yes, really) for civil war [11]. In Episode 304 [12] of the CounterVortex podcast [13], Bill Weinberg argues that despite the danger, Mamdani's election heightens the contradictions [14] in American society in a salubrious way, and may even open revolutionary possibilities. However, his pledge to destroy [15] Lower Manhattan's Elizabeth Street Garden [16] points to the contradictions [17] in Mamdani's own politics that activists will have to press him on.
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