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Nov 09, 2025
From the New York Times of May 11, 2024
Headline: A Rising Democrat Leans Into the Campus Fight Over Antisemitism
Sub-headline:Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, the proudly Jewish leader of a battleground state, has dived headfirst into subjects that have wrenched apart his party.
From the New York Times of Nov. 9, 2025
Josh Shapiro Knows What the Democrats Need
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/opinion/josh-shapiro-democratic-party.ht
Editor: In the wake of the win of Zohran Mamdani, propelled by New York Jewish voters, in record numbers, puts Mamdani in the drivers seat? Binyamin Appelbaum’s essay recapitulates the essay in the New York Times of May 11, 2024! Josh Shapiro now becomes the politician to watch, as the check against the political toxen of Mamdani. Binyamin Appelbaum’s political essay is the companion piece to perpetual hysteric Jonathan Greenblatt’s ‘Mamdani Monitor’, that now becomes a political cudgel of choice in the defamation of Zohran Mamdani.
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11/9/2025 8:50 A.M.
In my haste to post my comment, I forgot these two telling paragraphs of Binyamin Appelbaum comments on Zohran Mamdani!
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Tuesday’s election results have supercharged the debate among Democrats about whether the road to political recovery runs toward the middle or the left. The reason the argument persists is not because the answer is unclear but because, for many Democrats, the clear answer is unpalatable. The party will not return to the White House, nor reclaim Congress, until it learns to embrace centrist politicians like Mr. Shapiro.
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York does not demonstrate the viability of progressive candidates outside of a few big cities and coastal states. Nor can Democrats solve their problems by wrapping the same ideas in better paper. The party has marginalized itself so thoroughly that even Mr. Trump’s unpopular presidency isn’t doing much to make Democrats more popular. Everything Democrats want to accomplish is downstream from figuring out how to persuade voters in places like Pennsylvania — and in a bunch of places where the Democratic brand is held in even lower regard — that the party deserves another chance.
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