He was certainly ignorant on THIS particular point. NYC was a haven for communists even when such a thing would have been unthinkable anywhere else in the country.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (for example) were both born and raised in New York City, for heaven's sake.
Maybe some people are now alarmed because we might have Muslim communists running NYC instead of Jewish ones.
7 posted on 09/11/2025 3:44:05 AM PDT by Alberta's Child
("Although my eyes were open, they might just as well be closed.")