Mamdani’s New Fire Chief Has Never Actually, You Know, Fought Fires, But Has a Big Resume Item

Imagine if you were a Marxist who hated New York City for its status as the de facto economic capital of the world’s foremost capitalist state, and yet you are clever and resourceful enough to capitalize upon the American left’s increasingly dominant and reflexive anti-Americanism and socialism to get yourself elected mayor of that very city. Would you pursue policies that would be destructive to the well-being of New Yorkers? Of course you would.

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But surely I couldn’t be talking about the socialist wunderkind, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, could I? After all, he has promised to make the city affordable and welcoming of all people — a veritable model of fair economic practices and all the diversity the most committed

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