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The only way US policies will ever shift to help working people is if SNAP/EBT/Etc are completely rewritten from the ground up to allow tiered benefits so people can get weened off of it instead of just losing it as soon as they have one good month.
Additionally you need to bring back Civics and basic home-ec courses to the high schools again so people are trained on their rights, responsibilities, and an understanding of costs and taxes.
Mamdani naturally cannot do any of that, but he advertises things like putting government run stores in areas with 0 grocery stores, or making sure laws on the books about renting are actually followed, which includes the government subsidizing land lords who actually fill up their buildings, encouraging filling the buildings up instead of leaving them empty for tax reasons.
Will any of that work in the current death spiral the US is in? No idea, but as we saw during the Great Depression, people are willing to try anything when they're desperate. We're still a long way from how extreme it was back then, but we are seeing the rich corporate elite trying to build support for facism (like they tried back then), and the reactionaries pushing for communism (like they tried back then), and I kind of doubt the US can get another FDR to try to shift that.
Either way, his "solutions" sound good for everyone, even if in practice they'll have a lot of hurdles, and he has already pulled back on some policies.