At this point they need to just shut up and leave. This is the time to vote with your feet and in their case chose their life over the city’s desire to see them harmed.
Sometimes you have to leave a job for your own health, this is one of those times.
It would be wrong for a political figure to say that but what about the union? Don’t they look after the interests of their members? They seem to be more interested in tolerating Mamdani. How can they serve and protect the citizen voters who have contempt for them?
Manly men who suffer from battered women’s syndrome. That’s what it looks like.