New York City seems to be careening toward electing as its mayor Zohran Mamdani — a young, inexperienced, unaccomplished, red-diaper socialist born with a silver spoon in his mouth who has built his political identity around Israel-bashing, pie-in-the-sky economic ideas debunked by the whole history of humanity, and law enforcement ideas very specifically debunked by the in-living-memory history of New York City. Frustratingly, Mamdani faces a fractured opposition: incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who fled the Democratic Party after his federal indictment for garish corruption made renomination impossible; Republican candidate, radio host, and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, who was trounced by Adams in 2021; and former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who resigned in a state of disgrace (specifically, New York) and lost to Mamdani in the primary. To top it off, there’s a wealthy independent vanity candidate, Jim Walden.
I’m glad I moved from Queens to Long Island nine years ago, after two decades living inside city limits. But what happens in New York City still matters quite a lot.
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