Liberalism can't be counted on to reform itself
The mainstream left's dangerous game in New York City
Whenever a party loses an election, there seems to be a moment of genuine reckoning and introspection. This happened with the Democrats after the November election. For a moment, they seemed to be asking genuinely what they could do better to appeal to working class voters or young men. Occasionally trolly right-wing posters like myself get brought on Ezra Klein to bring home the gravity of the Democrats’ loss of their formerly most reliable voters.
But all that introspection is now being thrown out the window. We are seeing it happen in real time in New York City.
The primary is shaping up as a showdown between the scandal-plagued former governor Andrew Cuomo, who started out the prohibitive frontrunner, and Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist who wants to freeze rent, have the city own grocery stores, and who does not believe in the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state.
If Mamdani wins, the city would likely have as its next mayor someone who would be Chicago’s Brandon John…
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