Mamdani Steps Up Strident “Working Class” Campaign While Sounding Like Pompous Phony

“There have been some who have questioned whether that we aspire toward is possible,” he says.

Zohran Mamdani speaking at a May 11, 2021 rally to boycott, divest and sanction Israel.`

The socialist Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, is heading into the Thursday October 16 debate with independent Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa after a series of interviews and public appearances that offer new insights into his weaknesses.

Mamdani, 33, has recently done a New Yorker radio interview with that magazine’s editor David Remnick, a Fox News interview with Martha MacCallum, and an appearance at a Washington Heights campaign rally. The New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine also both published long profile-interview pieces. The Editors spent hours listening to and reading about Mamdani and here analyzes the essential highlights of all five recent Mamdani appearances—from his eating goat with his hands (seriously) to his singling out for attack by name Bill Ackman and Ronald Lauder as “billionaires who think their money can buy our democracy.”