Mayor Zohran Mamdani has moved swiftly to reshape City Hall, issuing an executive order that revokes all directives signed by former Mayor Eric Adams after September 26, 2024 — the date of Adams’s indictment.
Mamdani framed the move as a defense of working-class New Yorkers, though he did not provide specific examples of policies affected.
Rules alone are a terrible thing to strive for. Institutions, maybe. But not rules. But institutions work only when they’re impartial. When your opponent can ignore rules at will, then there is no institutions, and you’re allowed to ignore rules as well, until institutions are established.