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Mamdani Is the Foil Trump Wants
The Atlantic ^ | 11/4/25 | Jonathan Lemire

Posted on 11/05/2025 1:03:07 PM PST by DallasBiff

Zohran Mamdani will be the unlikeliest mayor in New York City history. A 34-year-old backbench state assemblyman and self-proclaimed democratic socialist, Mamdani ran on the promise of affordability and was declared the winner not long after polls closed tonight. On his path to victory, he thrilled young voters in a way that few Democrats have in years. But perhaps no one was more delighted by his election than President Donald Trump.

Mamdani’s victory was his second decisive win over former Governor Andrew Cuomo, whom he defeated in the Democratic primary in June. (The current mayor, Eric Adams, skipped the primary, choosing instead to run as an independent, but dropped out of the race in September.) Cuomo’s father, Mario, another former governor, famously said, “You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose,” and Mamdani will soon have to trade his lofty rhetoric for the gritty municipal work of ensuring public safety, digging out from snowstorms, and confronting ever-widening income inequality. Previous New York mayors, of course, have had to take on those tasks, but Mamdani will also face a challenge unique to him: a brewing war with the president of the United States, himself a New Yorker

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 1partyrule; atlantic; democratcorruption; democratincompetence; jonathanlemire; kathyhochul; mamdani; newyork; newyorkcity; onepartyrule; trump; trump4mayor; zohranmamdani
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Congratulations. You just violated the Free Republic consent decree.”

Please confirm this. This decree was 25 years ago, when there was no such thing as ARCHIVE.IS and ARCHIVE.TODAY .... and https://archive.ph/


41 posted on 11/05/2025 2:57:15 PM PST by dennisw (There is no limit to human stupidity )
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To: dennisw

“archive.is”?


42 posted on 11/05/2025 3:02:31 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim W N

try it on for size at the Washington Post>>>> https://archive.is/ <<<<< you are unaware of this bypass paywalls??


43 posted on 11/05/2025 3:06:35 PM PST by dennisw (There is no limit to human stupidity )
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To: DallasBiff

Oh, yeah. We’ve got ‘em just where we want ‘em. Uh-huh.


44 posted on 11/05/2025 3:07:32 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: dennisw
you are unaware of this bypass paywalls??

Yes. As I said, I’m low tech.

I’m high on political and personal freedom and low on technical stuff...

45 posted on 11/05/2025 6:14:55 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: DallasBiff

I said in another thread, the oligarchs will throw $$$Millions$$$ into NYC to ensure the socialist/Commie experiment does not fail.


46 posted on 11/05/2025 7:10:30 PM PST by fastrock
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To: DallasBiff

The Atlantic. Known BS.


47 posted on 11/05/2025 7:21:29 PM PST by mfish13 ( )
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To: DallasBiff

When the funding for the state ends it’s Mamdani’s chance to shine on how well communism works.

Fire departments on full alert.


48 posted on 11/06/2025 7:24:22 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Leaning Right
> Mamdani does not care because he is the Democrats new celebrity stealth candidate being groomed for the 2028 presidential election <

And now it's time for a bit of good news. Mamdani was born in Uganda. And it's too late for him to pretend otherwise.

So he's not eligible for the presidency.


Neither was Barak Obama and possibly not Kamala Harris as well. Kamala was born in the US to parents who were not US citizens at the time.

49 posted on 11/07/2025 2:28:44 AM PST by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead.l)
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