The New York City primary for the Democratic Party nomination for mayor was a fantasy come true for a political junkie. The race featured a mayor saved from indictment by the intervention of a U.S. president from the opposing party, a scandal-plagued, womanizing former governor, and a genuine, honest-to-goodness, dyed-in-the-wool, larger-than-life socialist.
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The problem is that this is no dream, no fantasy, and New York City is a real place with more than 8 million souls whose lives and livelihoods have been put at risk by a Jew-hating, cop-hating, rich-hating, corporation-bashing state assemblyman with no executive experience and a passel of bad ideas he will look to enact.
If he’s elected mayor.
Proud socialist Zohran Mamdani is comfortably in the lead after the first
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