Last week, New York City’s boy-mayor-in-waiting, 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani, indicated that the wealthy had no place in his America. “I don’t think that we should have billionaires because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality,” he told Kristen Welker on Meet the Press.
Of course, a central tenet of youth is to believe that one’s thoughts are unique. Irony-immune “progressives” love nothing more than to dish out ideas that failed a century ago, believing that this time will be different because a guy in an Instagram reel said so. Yet learning about how government-owned grocery stores (which Mamdani is proposing) have failed in Russia and Venezuela might require a liberal to stop making fun of Jeff Bezos’s wedding for five minutes and pick up a book. The juice isn’t worth the squeeze.
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