Zohran Mamdani is now the mayor of one of the most influential and arguably most important cities in the world, and New Yorkers will soon realize that electing a democratic socialist was not the best idea.

Mamdani has offered New York City residents all kinds of "free" stuff, including free bus travel, sky-high minimum wage rates, rent freezes, free childcare, and everything else that probably got him elected. 

After all, it's easy to get votes and support if you promise your prospective voters that everything will be free or low-cost, just like a fifth-grade class president candidate does to win. "Free ice cream every day!," except it never comes true.

Mamdani was a favorite to win the election for some time, comfortably beating his only real competition -- former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

What's happening?

The problem with offering virtually everything for free is that it still has to be paid for, and in Mamdani's case, he doesn't actually have the power to enact many of the promises he made to voters.

Not only will most of his socialist initiatives be challenged in the court system, he also faces the risk of being defunded by President Donald Trump's administration.

Regardless of the obvious inability for Mamdani to come through on a vast majority of his pie-in-the-sky promises to get votes, New Yorkers voted for him as if he were going for class president.

Freezing rent, which is one of the biggest mistakes Mamdani made in promising New York voters, will never work out the way that he proposed it would. The European Conservative elaborated on why it's a failed promise already.

Mamdani comes from the school of thought that eye-watering rents are caused not by high demand and low supply, but by the insatiable greed of landlords and property developers. As such, he proposes to introduce a four-year rent freeze, which would apply to almost half of rental properties in the city. This would mean that New York rent would be decided not by the market, but by a ‘Rent Guidelines Board.’ This will invariably disincentivise landlords from carrying out repairs, as the cost of maintenance outpaces their income.

Of course, that means there will ultimately be even fewer livable homes in the city after the damage is done.

Mamdani also has a history of "defund the police" statements. That's not exactly the leader that NYC needs for a city that is overrun with crime and more dangerous than ever before.

Out of touch

While Mamdani attempted to sell himself to voters as an everyday American with everyday struggles and a hard childhood, he's almost completely the opposite of that.

New Yorkers, at least the honest ones, will, at some point, come to their senses and realize what a mistake they've made in electing Mamdani.

His promises that fail will be excused and defended until too many fall through.

Only time will tell how long he'll last.