electoralism

there's also #3:

there are ways to entangle him into the legal system so that he could face justice, but doing so would force mamdani to expend all/most of his politlcal capital and will backfire badly if he fails.

so he's going to do the same thing that the democrats have been doing for the last half century on any progressive legislation/order and simply say that they can't do anything because his hands are tied by the system.