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Nov 01, 2025
Headline: A political drama for the ages, opening soon in New York City
Sub-headline: Zohran Mamdani v Donald Trump. What could go wrong?
Editor: Zanny Menton Beddoes and her Oxbridger Cadre seems to have weighted too long to begin its assault on Zohran Mamdani! Reader recall this from my comment of Oct 29, 2025?
Editor: Beddoes intervention, is to say the least, a bit late in the political game!
Headline: A political drama for the ages, opening soon in New York City
Sub-headline : Zohran Mamdani v Donald Trump. What could go wrong?
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Meeting sceptics with smiles is a luxury Mr Mamdani appears able to afford. Polls and betting markets suggest he will very likely be elected mayor of New York City on November 4th. His nearest challenger, Andrew Cuomo, a former governor running as an independent, would have to defy a persistent double-digit polling deficit. If it is Mr Mamdani, voters will deliver one of the most stunning results in the city’s history. A 34-year-old Democratic Socialist with an eye-catching (and eye-wateringly expensive) progressive agenda, but no executive experience, would take charge of America’s largest city, with a workforce of about 300,000 and a budget of $116bn.
How did New York get here? To call Mr Mamdani “charismatic” understates the appeal he exerts on his supporters, many of them young and ethnically diverse. Mr Mamdani’s gifts as a made-for-TikTok video auteur are well-known, but his campaign’s message discipline has been as impressive. He has made his affordability platform—rent freezes, housing investment, free child care, free buses—the main story of the election, while avoiding culture-war traps and shouting matches with Donald Trump, who calls him a communist. “What his campaign did so well was to celebrate the city,” says Eli Northrup, an ally who is running for the state legislature next year. “It’s joyful. It’s positive.”
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Editor: In the above paragraphs The Economist writers, because this news magazine is carefully edited, by many hands, answers their own questions: as to the why of Mr Mamdani ! The Myth of Oxbridger superiority does not just stumble, it a pratfall !
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Editor: The Oxbridgers waste not one moment in their quest of the defamation of Mamdani as the beyound pale! The final sentence of the first paragraph in the Oxbrider telling is about :“It’s your job to leave them thinking that Zohran’s people are classy.”. In sum the Zohran’s cadre are hicksters! Yet the present Mayor of New York crimes were dismissed ,and Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed 13 women.
Judge dismisses criminal case against New York Mayor Eric Adams
Published Wed, Apr 2 20259:38 AM EDTUpdated Wed, Apr 2 20252:15 PM EDT
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/eric-adams-case-dismissed-new-york-trump-doj.html#:~:text=A%20federal%20judge%20dismissed%20the,the%20mayor%20in%20the%20future.
DOJ says Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed 13 women
The former governor’s lawyer says he was never interviewed.
ALBANY, New York — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed 13 women who worked for the state over the course of an eight-year period, the Department of Justice announced Friday as part of a civil rights settlement with his successor.
The agreement concluded the governor’s office under Cuomo violated federal Title VII rules against discrimination and retaliation between 2013 and 2021.
Cuomo and his staff engaged in “a pattern or practice of discrimination against female employees based on sex” and found they retaliated against the women, Justice Department officials found.
The justice department found Cuomo “repeatedly subjected” women in his office to non-consensual sexual contact, ogling and gender-based nicknames. Top Cuomo staff “were aware of the conduct and retaliated against four of the women he harassed,” the DOJ concluded.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/26/cuomo-sexual-harassment-doj-00138140
Asquadron of door-knocking volunteers eager to spread the word for Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign assembled at a playground on Manhattan’s Upper West Side on a sunny Saturday afternoon in mid-October. Helen Rosenthal, a former city councilwoman, offered notes on how to canvass. Don’t argue with doormen. If you encounter a hostile voter—and in this partially Jewish neighbourhood, it would not be surprising, given Mr Mamdani’s outspoken support for Palestinians—don’t escalate. “It’s not your job to change their mind,” Ms Rosenthal advised. “It’s your job to leave them thinking that Zohran’s people are classy.”
Meeting sceptics with smiles is a luxury Mr Mamdani appears able to afford. Polls and betting markets suggest he will very likely be elected mayor of New York City on November 4th. His nearest challenger, Andrew Cuomo, a former governor running as an independent, would have to defy a persistent double-digit polling deficit. If it is Mr Mamdani, voters will deliver one of the most stunning results in the city’s history. A 34-year-old Democratic Socialist with an eye-catching (and eye-wateringly expensive) progressive agenda, but no executive experience, would take charge of America’s largest city, with a workforce of about 300,000 and a budget of $116bn.
Editor: Title this diatribe… what to name but utter political desperation? That even old hands like the storied duo of Micklethwait & Wooldridge, might have passed as a bit to melodramatic, even for their magun opus of ‘The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America’! Of the ill fated crime of The War On Terror of Bush The Younger?
But the opening paragraph sets the tone for this, what to mame it but a Neo-Conservative hysterical attack! On a man who comes from the long forgotten tradition of FDR, Raymond Moley, Rexford G. Tugwell, Adolph A. Berle, Jr., Ferdinand Pecora! Ever if an unacknowledged tradition, which still manifests itself in a hope for something better that the dismal political present? But the reader must forgive the utter, but cultivated ighnorance of the Oxbridger Cadre? This is about a defamation of a political non-conformist, that is a clear and present danger to the Neo-Conservative toxin that engulfs American political class!
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Editor: The Final Diagnosis of The Economist Cadre cannot surprise the reader! The Economist’s Zanny Menton Beddoes, is a Neo-Conservative and her hirelings don’t just follow the imperative of the boss but are Fellow Travelers!
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None of these moderating instincts is likely to keep Mr Trump’s boot off his neck. At a minimum, if Mr Mamdani is elected, the White House will probably make a midterms-focused spectacle of the mayor’s unabashed socialism, to undermine suburban New York Democrats running for closely contested seats in the House of Representatives next year, races that may help decide whether Democrats regain control of the lower house of Congress.
Yet if Mr Trump freezes more federal funds (he has already “terminated” a $16bn tunnel project linking New York and New Jersey) or if he sends soldiers and border-control agents to his former hometown, he would be taking his own political risks. Badly disrupting the country’s largest city could have knock-on effects in the national economy. New York’s police (33,000 officers strong) and Democratic prosecutors will not take kindly to interlopers tear-gassing city neighbourhoods. And Mr Mamdani has proved that he is no slouch at the attention-grabbing arts of modern strategic communication. “Donald Trump is not prepared or experienced in dealing with someone like Zohran Mamdani,” says Mitchell Moss, an urban policy scholar at New York University.
If New Yorkers choose Mr Mamdani on November 4th, they will not only vote in a bold but inexperienced reformer, with uncertain consequences for the city’s trajectory. They may also raise the curtain on a political drama for the ages.
Editor: In sum the election of Mamdani is an invitation to political disaster. Yet the Oxbridgers engage in thought processes moored in an utterly static notion of history, in sum as unchanging. Yet the hallmark of Trump and Trumpism is its toxic iterations of a wayward political psychosis!
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