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The real crux of Mamdani’s campaign comes down to just two things.
The first is the playing of overtly racial politics, bringing the most divisive approach to the forefront of his campaign.
This comes not just in Mamdani’s promise to tax white New Yorkers, or to pretend that it is white New Yorkers who somehow have the power these days.
It is also there in his appeal to communities based on his own ethnic and religious background.
Not just the Muslim card, but the Ugandan immigrant card, the Asian card.
He used this not just to appeal to New Yorkers from South and East Asia but to young, white, college-educated New Yorkers who like to fetishize and glamorize anyone who they think of as “other”.
It doesn’t matter how little Mamdani has achieved in his life to date, or how impossible his promises like rent control are.
Mamdani need only release a video of himself eating without a knife and fork for these grads to coo with appreciation.
You might put this down to the TikTokization of our politics, where a relatively fresh-faced candidate can make a sound bite seem long-winded.
This is politics for a post-sound bite generation, where someone’s “vibe” matters more than their actual platform.
Still we can glimpse where Mamdani might still unravel.
In recent days we had confirmation that Mamdani lacks basic accounting skills.
His promise that as mayor he will use $140 million to fund socialist grocery stores is something he claimed was already accounted for.
It turns out that the money he thought was available for his free-food scheme is private spending which he mistook for government spending.
Still, who cares what is private and what is government when you’re promising a socialist utopia?
Read it all here:
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Also from the Douglas Murray article - emphasizing Cogito’s point:
After all, this city has been run by left-wing politicians for a long time.
If you think the city is unequal, unfair and just begging for more left-wing policies, then why have these policies to date provided such terrible results?
A sensible voter might conclude that it is because left-wing policies don’t work.
A naïve voter might be persuaded that it’s because they haven’t been tried enough, and conclude that what New York needs to thrive is for the rich to be chased out and everyone else to be given free stuff.
There are 5 million voters in this city.
The only way that Mamdani can win is if the only people who come out to vote are the minority of New Yorkers who are as delusional as he is.
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The sad and scary thing is, it will be no surprise at all if he wins. They elected communist De Blasio - why wouldn’t they be stupid enough to elect another one that’s even worse?
The real mystery is - how in the world did Giuliani, who was actually a great mayor - ever win?
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Yes, Giuliani was a great mayor, indeed. Mamdani, the Jew hating moslem communist lunatic, makes Adams look like Ronald Reagan.
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