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Mamdani's Coalition: Educated People Whose Degrees Didn't Pay Off

from Zohran Mamdani, Political Rage, & The Hunt | The Tim Dillon Show #450 · #450

4 min

Tim analyzes Mamdani's base as highly educated but underpaid people frustrated their degrees didn't translate into income, especially in media and entertainment fields hit by layoffs.

In this bit5 moments
  • Tim explains Zoran Mamdani won over everyone making over $100,000 a year by appealing to educated people whose degrees didn't translate to income.
  • A generation was promised that college and education were the route to comfort and security, then graduated into alarming debt.
  • These educated people moved to cities for jobs in finance, tech, and media, only to watch those industries hemorrhage positions.
  • Mamdani's coalition is higher educated and higher income by the numbers, but not high enough to feel rich in New York.
  • Tim acknowledges Mamdani is correct about wealth inequality in America and specifically in New York.
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