Nov 06, 2025
Editor: The Clinton Dynasty confronts the fact that the old corrupt order of Pelosi, and Schumer, to forshorten the facts, of the corrupt and sclerotic Neo-Liberal Order, of pruchased AIPAC cronies, is teetering? Does the purchased loyalty of the hysterical Zionist Adam Schiff represent possible new life for Clintonism!
Newspaper Reader.
Nov 05, 2025
Editor: The first consideration to make with regard to Stephens, is that he was a former employee of the Jerusliam Post: A paid propgandist for the State of Israel! Yet he still managers to write for The New York Times that employes David Brooks, Thomas Friedman, David French, all Zionist ! Not forgetting the very fact that Mamdani is a Muslim?
Editor: Stephens introduction makes way for a ‘Self -serving ‘History’ of bad political ideas:
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.
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Solyndra to Sematech (not to mention Alitalia or “Such a Bad Experience Never Again” Sabena)
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America First? The slogan of Charles Lindbergh and other pre-World War II isolationists should have been buried forever on Dec. 7, 1941. Instead, it emerged from its grave some 75 years later.
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But it isn’t just the Trump administration that is reawakening the moral and intellectual zombies of the past. Everywhere one looks there are policy necromancers.
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The platform of the national Democratic Socialists of America calls for a 32-hour workweek “with no reduction in pay or benefits”; “free public universal child care and pre-K”; “college for all”; the cancellation of “all student-loan debt”; “universal rent control”; “massive public investment to transition away from fossil fuels”; “guaranteed support for workers in the fossil fuel industry,” and “expansive paid family leave.” Not only would American workers stand to benefit, but so would everybody else, since the D.S.A. wants to offer these benefits to anyone who wishes to come to United States through an open-borders policy.
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Oh, wait — many did. “Bolivarian socialism,” welcomed by the Jeremy Corbyns of the world, took Venezuela from being South America’s richest country to a humanitarian catastrophe. Sweden attempted a form of socialism in the 1970s and ’80s, only to reverse course after it experienced massive capital flight and a financial crisis during which interest rates hit 75 percent. France’s Socialist government imposed a 75 percent tax on earnings over one million euros in 2012; it dropped the tax two years later as the wealthy packed their bags. Britain’s National Health Service, whose advocates chronically complain is “underfunded,” is in a state of perpetual crisis even as health care, according to the BBC, gobbles up roughly one third of government spending.
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“The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money,” Margaret Thatcher once observed. To put it another way, you can’t abolish billionaires, as Zohran 1,036,051 the D.S.A.’s poster child, would like, and still expect them to keep footing your bills.
If socialism is foolish, there’s something worse: the “socialism of fools,” antisemitism, now rapidly ascendant on the MAGA right.
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Editor: Mr. Stephens is a Zionist of the most toxic kind! Here he produces a simulacram of a critique, that should have roused the sleeping majority ? But the victory of Zohran Mamdani at 1,036,051 votes, renders Bret Stephens political commetary into a nullity!
Newspaper Reader.
Nov 04, 2025
Editor: Here is a a selection from the FT ‘political report’: The Billionaire Class that the Financial Times, just doesn’t cater to but coddles, like a new born infant, in need of succor! And the cadre of political opportunists who hope to feed on the remainders! Note the appearance of the highlighted first sentence of this paragraph as evidence of an ersatz objectivity!
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However, many on Wall Street remain sceptical. In July, JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon described Mamdani’s policy proposals as “ideological mush”. Financiers such as Third Point founder Daniel Loeb, billionaire Ronald Lauder and Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Pacs opposed to Mamdani’s candidacy.
Mamdani has also had mixed success in his efforts to win over the Jewish community. He has said that antisemitism has “no place” in the city and said he would discourage use of the term “globalise the intifada”. But last month more than 850 rabbis and cantors from across the US signed an open letter opposing his candidacy, saying his rhetoric on Israel would “encourage and exacerbate hostility towards Judaism and Jews”.
New York’s near 50,000-strong police force has also been subjected to a charm offensive. Over the summer he met a large group of rank-and-file police officers in a closed-door session, during which he apologised for the June 2020 tweet.
He has also said he intended to ask Jessica Tisch to stay on as New York police commissioner if elected. Tisch, a billionaire heiress who was appointed by Eric Adams, has been a bugbear for some on the far left, despite her wider reputation for competence and professionalism.
By keeping her on, Mamdani signalled that he “wants the best and brightest”, says Wylde. “Diverse viewpoints. It’s the Team of Rivals concept.”
His lack of government experience remains a vulnerability. In the second TV debate on October 22, Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate, told him his “résumé could fit on a cocktail napkin”. Cuomo said he had “never had a job”, and would struggle to run a city with 300,000 employees and a $115bn budget. He would also be no match for Trump who “thinks he’s a kid”, the former governor added.
Mamdani himself has brushed off that criticism. “What I don’t have in experience I make up for in integrity,” he said in one debate. Turning to Cuomo he added: “And what you don’t have in integrity you could never make up for in experience.”
Mamdani remains a tough sell to many moderates. But there is no doubting his ability to connect with groups that Democrats have lost touch with — young and working-class voters and ethnic minorities — and who will be crucial to its hopes of regaining control of the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterms.
Their enthusiasm was on full display at last month’s rally in Washington Heights, held in a famous vaudeville and movie house built in 1930 that was filled to capacity with volunteers and fans.
“Fundamental change only comes from the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future,” Mamdani said. “Together, that is exactly what we have done.”
Among the attendees was Ergene Kim, a recent arts graduate. “Since the elections last year there’s been a lot of cynicism and pessimism,” she says. “A lot of my friends want to leave the country.” Mamdani, a “symbol of change and optimism”, was turning the mood around.
“It would be a huge symbolic victory for the left in this country if he wins,” she adds. “It will show we’re still fighting. It will show we’re still here.”
https://www.ft.com/content/92bf9fba-dc24-4384-9e84-a6f63473eb2f
Editor: I can’t claim anything that might resemble objectivity, but the evidence is clear: that the political ascention of Mamdani, has precipitated not just the Financial Times, but The Economist, to levels of hysterical fear mongering of politician who is a Social Democrat and a Muslim. The Other keeps manifesting itself from within!
Newspaper Reader.
The Economist is late to the game of one–upmanship against Zohran Mamdani?
Newspaper Reader
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?
Nov 03, 2025
Editor: Don’t call me anti-Semitic, call me Anti-Fashist !!!!
Nov 02, 2025
Editor: What can the reader make of this Economist call to arms?
Editor: Its fitting that I’ll frame the text of this Economist political impertive, via a qutations from Ernst Jünger’s Storm of Steel (1920).
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The villages we passed through as we marched to the front line had the appearance of lunatic asylums let loose. Whole companies were pushing walls down or sitting on the roofs of the houses throwing down the slates. Trees were felled, window-frames broken, and smoke and clouds of dust rose from heap after heap of rubbish. In short, an orgy of destruction was going on. The men were chasing round with incredible zeal, arrayed in the abandoned wardrobes of the population, in women’s dresses and with top hats on their heads. With positive genius they singled out the main beams
of the houses and, tying ropes round them, tugged with all their might, shouting out in time with their pulls, till the whole house collapsed. Others swung hammers and smashed whatever came in their way, from flowerpots on the window ledges to the glass-work of conservatories.
Every village up to the Siegfried line was a rubbish-heap. Every tree felled, every road mined, every well fouled, every water-course dammed, every cellar blown up or made into a death-trap with concealed bombs, all supplies or metal sent back, ail rails ripped up, all telephone wire rolled up, everything burnable burned. In short, the country over which the enemy were to advance had been turned into an utter desolation.
The moral justification of this has been much discussed. However, it seems to me that the gratified approval of arm-chair warriors and journalists is incomprehensible. When thousands of peaceful persons are robbed of their homes, the self-satisfaction of power may at least keep silence.
As for the necessity, I have of course, as a Prussian officer, no doubt whatever. War means the destruction of the enemy without scruple and by any means. War is the harshest of all trades, and the masters of it can only entertain humane feelings so long as they do no harm. It makes no difference that these operations which the situation demanded were not very pretty.
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Editor: Beddoes and her minions have refined the call to battle, as a necessay imperative for Europe. The very thought of an Oxbridger, or its equiveilent, serving in any Army, offers a certain puerile potential? ‘Europe’ seems to have reached an Age of Fracture: Macrons wayward politics is the paradigm?
Wars are fought on the battlefield, but they are also trials of financial strength. In prolonged conflicts the ability and will to marshal resources and find new ways of raising cash are critical in determining who wins: sometimes they are the decisive factor. That truth is about to become all too real for Europe. Ukraine is facing a savage cash crunch. Unless something changes, it will run out of money at the end of February. This cliff edge is fast approaching, now that President Donald Trump has cut America’s financial support for Ukraine, hopes of a ceasefire fade and Russian drones smash Ukraine’s energy grid in an attempt to break its will.
Indebted, fractious Europe needs to find the money to keep Ukraine in the fight. But it would be a terrible mistake to see this cash call as merely a painful exercise in annual budgeting. Instead, it is a historic opportunity to shift the balance of power between Europe and Russia by exposing the Kremlin’s financial frailty and altering Vladimir Putin’s calculus about war and peace. It is also a chance to speed up Europe’s efforts to establish its military and financial independence from America. The bill for Ukraine is higher than most Europeans realise, but it is also a bargain.
After almost four years of war, the cost of fighting is huge. By the end of 2025, Ukraine’s military effort, defined as its defence budget plus foreign gifts of weapons and military grants, will have cost a total of roughly $360bn. This year the war effort will require $100bn-110bn, the highest sum yet, equivalent to about half of Ukraine’s GDP.
Two of the three sources of funding for Ukraine are now drying up. In February, after Mr Trump entered the White House, monthly American financial allocations to Ukraine stopped. Meanwhile, Ukraine has now borrowed as much as anyone will lend it. It has an official fiscal deficit of about a fifth of GDP; public debt has doubled as a share of GDP since before the war, to about 110%. Its ability to borrow from war-scarred households and firms at home is limited.
That leaves Europe. The prospect is exposing divisions inside the European Union. On October 23rd its leaders failed to agree on a loan to Ukraine that would be collateralised by $163bn of frozen Russian assets held in the EU’s main clearing house. Objections from Belgium, which hosts the clearing house, threaten to derail the plan. Northern countries fear that agreeing to more EU fundraising by issuing common bonds could undermine fiscal discipline across the currency bloc. France fears that fresh European funds will be spent on overpriced American weapons to please Mr Trump. Everyone worries that a blank cheque could worsen Ukraine’s corruption.
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https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/10/30/why-funding-ukraine-is-a-giant-opportunity-for-europe
Editor: The BBC provides the necessay reality check on the War Mongering of Beddoes, and her political cadre, in their comfortable home offices!
BBC
Headline: Key town faces ‘multi-thousand’ Russian force, top Ukraine commander admits
James Landale Diplomatic correspondent, in Kyiv
Ukraine’s top military commander has admitted his soldiers are facing “difficult conditions” defending Pokrovsk – a key eastern front-line town – against massed Russian forces.
Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi said Ukrainian troops were fending off a “multi-thousand enemy” force – but denied Russian claims that they were surrounded or blocked.
He confirmed that elite special forces had been deployed to protect key supply lines which, army sources said, were all under Russian fire.
The defence ministry in Moscow reported that Ukrainian troops were surrendering and 11 of their special forces had been killed after landing by helicopter – something denied by Kyiv.
Gen Syrskyi said in a social media post on Saturday that he was “back on the front” to personally hear the latest reports from military commanders on the ground in the eastern Donetsk region.
In a short video, Syrskyi is seen studying battlefield maps with other commanders, including the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov.
It is unclear when or where the footage was recorded.
Ukrainian media earlier reported that Budanov was in the region to personally oversee the operation by the special forces.
The deployment of special forces suggests officials in Kyiv are determined to try to hold on to the town, which Russia has been trying to seize for more than a year.
Ukraine’s 7th Rapid Response Corps said on Saturday that Ukrainian troops “have improved [their] tactical position” in Pokrovsk – but the situation remained “difficult and dynamic”.
Late on Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stressed that the defence of Pokrovsk was a “priority”.
There have been growing reports of Russian advances around the strategic town to the west of the Russian-seized regional capital of Donetsk.
Images shared with news agencies late on Friday appear to show a Ukrainian Black Hawk helicopter deploying about 10 troops near Pokrovsk, although the location and date of the footage could not be verified.
Russia’s defence ministry said it had thwarted the deployment of Ukrainian military intelligence special forces north-west of the town, killing all 11 troops who landed by helicopter.
DeepState, a Ukrainian open-source monitoring group, estimates about half of Pokrovsk is a so-called “grey zone” where neither side is in full control.
A military source in Donetsk told the BBC that Ukrainian forces were not surrounded but their supply lines were under fire from Russian troops.
The US-based Institute for the Study of War said Ukrainian forces had “marginally advanced” during recent counter-attacks north of Pokrovsk, but that the town was “mainly a contested ‘grey zone’”.
Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and currently controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory, including the Crimean peninsula Moscow annexed in 2014.
Moscow wants Kyiv to cede the Donetsk and neighbouring Luhansk regions – collectively known as the Donbas – as part of a peace deal, including the parts it currently does not control.
Pokrovsk is a key transport and supply hub whose capture could unlock Russian efforts to seize the rest of the region.
But Kyiv also believes its capture would help Russia in its efforts to persuade the US that its military campaign is succeeding – and, therefore, that the West should acquiesce to its demands.
Washington has grown increasingly frustrated with the Kremlin’s failure to move forward with peace negotiations – culminating in US President Donald Trump placing sanctions on two largest Russian oil producers and axing plans for a summit with President Vladimir Putin.
Zelensky has publicly agreed with Trump’s proposal for a ceasefire that would freeze the war along the current front lines.
Putin is refusing to do so, insisting on his maximalist pre-invasion demands that Kyiv and its Western allies see as a de facto capitulation of Ukraine.
Additional reporting by Jaroslav Lukiv
Editor: the final paragraphs of the Economist War Mongering chatter from a cadre of writers , who mold the work of stringers, that meets many levels of usable political winnoning, to meet political ends!
This newspaper supports the seizure of Russian assets, but they are $230bn short of what is needed. Given the size of the challenge Europe collectively faces, some sort of joint borrowing would be justified. Far from undermining the euro’s international status, for the EU to issue bonds collectively would create a bigger pool of common debt, deepening Europe’s single capital market and boosting the role of the euro as a reserve currency. A multi-year horizon for weapons procurement would help Europe sequence the build-up of its defence industry. In the short term Europe should have no qualms about buying the American weapons that Ukraine needs, including air-defence systems. Later spending should favour European defence firms as they develop their own systems, as well as Ukraine’s own cutting-edge defence-tech industries.
Bring it on
Grave problems lie ahead. Inducing despair in Mr Putin, a noble aim, might be complicated if Russia can tap China for funds. Decision-making between the EU and NATO, which includes Britain, Norway and Canada, needs to be nimbler. Safeguards against corruption are important, but must not erode Ukraine’s—and the Kremlin’s—certainty that, one way or another, the money is coming.
Europe should take heart and recognise its own strength. Its military budget is already four times larger than Russia’s; its economy is ten times larger. Far from shying away from a financial contest with the Kremlin, Europe should embrace it—and win the war.
Editor: The final paragraph of this of essay, places Europe in a position of power when compared to Russia. How might the Russia’s Oreshnik missile weigh in that balance of power?
Robert Greenall and Chris Partridge
BBC News
Russian missile reached speed of more than 8,000 miles per hour, Ukraine says
By Reuters
November 22, 20246:35 AM PSTUpdated November 22, 2024
KYIV, Nov 22 (Reuters) – The Russian missile that struck the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday reached a top speed of more than 13,000 kph (8,000 mph) and took about 15 minutes to reach its target from its launch, Ukraine said on Friday in its first public assessment of the new weapon.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow struck a Ukrainian military facility with a new intermediate-range, hypersonic ballistic missile known as “Oreshnik” as a warning to the West against supporting Ukraine’s war effort.
The attack took place with fighting in the war nearing the three-year mark and Ukraine firing longer-range missiles supplied by its Western allies at targets inside Russia.
“The flight time of this Russian missile from the moment of its launch in the Astrakhan region to its impact in the city of Dnipro was 15 minutes,” the military’s Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR) said in a statement.
“The missile was equipped with six warheads: each equipped with six submunitions. The speed at the final part of the trajectory was over Mach 11.”
Mach is a measurement of supersonic speed. Mach 11 equals about 13,600 kph.
HUR added that the weapon was likely to be from the Kedr missile complex, which deputy head Vadym Skibitsky told Ukrainian media is related to the Oreshnik system and was first tested in June 2021.
Skibitsky said Russia could have at least 10 more such missiles to test before they enter mass production, news agency Ukrinform reported.
Kyiv initially suggested Russia had fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, but U.S. officials and NATO echoed Putin’s description of the weapon as an intermediate-range ballistic missile.
Ukraine’s foreign ministry on Thursday urged the international community to react swiftly to the strike.
NATO will hold an emergency meeting with Ukraine at the alliance’s headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss Moscow’s strike, a NATO source said on Friday.
Judy Dempsey offers this analysis/evaluation from May 21, 2024. Dempsey is an itergral part of the American National Security State Apparatus of Experts, based in Europe !
Headline: Europe’s Inability to Manage Instability
Sub-headline: Turbulent developments in Europe and beyond are eroding the premises upon which the EU was established. European governments must respond strategically to protect democracy.
by Judy Dempsey
Published on May 21, 2024
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This economic shock was not new. The collapse of the Lehman Brothers bank in 2008 and the ensuring eurozone crisis triggered a deep lack of confidence in the EU’s perceived ability to provide continuous growth and prosperity.
On top of that, the war in Syria and Germany’s decision in 2015 to give refuge to nearly 1 million people fleeing the conflict also challenged the EU. The impact of globalization, wars, and migration sat uncomfortably with the EU’s founding premises.
What all the above means is that Europe needs to strategically acknowledge how such premises no longer apply.
First, the EU needs to move toward greater economic integration. This would entail agreeing a functioning banking union and a capital markets union. Both would strengthen the eurozone.
Second, since Europe, at least for now, is not going to be a defense player in the sense Macron proposed, it should strengthen its role in NATO, regardless of who enters the White House in January 2025. Deterrence, enhanced capabilities, and further enlargement need to be priorities.
Third, since EU member states cannot agree on treaty changes that would reduce the use of unanimity in decisionmaking—thus making EU foreign policy more cohesive and effective, coalitions of the willing could be an option. If this requires financing for special civilian missions, those countries that don’t want to join should contribute financially.
Finally, leaders need to speak out about why Europe’s democracy and values need to be defended. If that way of life didn’t matter, why are Ukrainians and Georgians waving EU flags?
Political Observer.
Nov 01, 2025
Yours,
Myra B.
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 !
Newspaper Reader & Political Observer.
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!
Newspaper Reader.
Oct 30, 2025
Chronicle of a bromance: inside the relationship between Milei and Donald Trump
Critics say the dynamics of Argentina’s relationship with the U.S. leader is neocolonial. Could it also be unrequited?
October 25, 2025
When President Javier Milei first met Donald Trump, he was starstruck.
“President!” he cried, grabbing both the Republican magnate’s arms and staring straight into his eyes, grinning broadly. “Thank you for your work for me,” Milei said. “I’m very happy.” In the background, the Village People anthem, YMCA, was pumping.
As soon as Milei finished speaking, Trump quickly scanned the room for a camera, looked into one, and said: “MAGA — Make Argentina Great Again.” Only then did Milei let him go.
It was February 2024 in Maryland, US. Both leaders were attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), an annual right-wing gathering first held in 1974. Trump had not yet been elected for a second term.
Trump and Milei have met several times since, and the Argentine was the first world leader to meet with Trump after his electoral victory last November. But of all their encounters, none was as crucial for the relationship as a lunch at the Oval Office of the White House, where they discussed details of a U.S. lifeline to Argentina that could total over US$40 billion.
During the one-hour televised meeting, Milei spoke for just three minutes. “I feel very honored, especially at this moment in which, under your great leadership, President Trump, you have accomplished peace in the Middle East,” the Argentine president said in Spanish, his back to the camera. Only after he had finished speaking did Trump ask if an interpreter was present to explain Milei’s “important, profound statement” to the room — but none was forthcoming, and he moved on. None of the questions from the crowd of journalists present were directed at the Argentine leader.
The optics of that lunch and previous public appearances suggest that, while both men are world leaders, Trump does not see this as a relationship between equals.
An ideological alliance
“It is a relationship that surpasses any other instance or experience of alignment or acquiescence that Argentina has had throughout its history in its bilateral relationship with the United States,” Anabella Busso, director of the School of International Relations at the University of Rosario and a specialist in Argentina-U.S. relations, told the Herald.
Busso said that the alliance between the two far-right leaders is “ideological”. Both leaders have accused the international community and world leaders of adopting so-called “Marxist” attitudes towards the “environment, gender, multilateralism, and social policies,” Busso added.
Earlier this year, for instance, Milei followed Trump’s example and announced that Argentina would also leave the World Health Organization (although this has not happened at the time of writing). He also mimicked some of the Republican’s stunts (Milei’s catchphrase “We don’t hate journalists enough” is derived from Trump’s “You don’t hate the media enough”). The Trump administration has also copied some of Milei’s wildest ideas — for example, his “chainsaw” campaign was embraced by Elon Musk during his brief stint at the U.S. government’s Department of Government Efficiency.
Both Trump and Milei are part of a far-right movement that frequents places like the CPAC.
This is no small matter — channels associated with CPAC were crucial in striking the deal with the U.S.’s financial support package for Argentina. U.S. consultant Barry Bennett, a former Trump advisor, was hired by the Argentine government to create a “backchannel” between Washington and Buenos Aires. Negotiations were held through both official channels — through Economy Minister Luis Caputo — and so-called “parallel diplomacy” led by Tactic Global, a consulting firm where Bennett works. Soledad Cedro, the CEO of CPAC Argentina, is one of its partners.
Bennett has also met with members of Argentina’s so-called moderate opposition (opposition parties who at least partially support Milei) to tell them the U.S. government’s views on Argentina, according to two people present in those meetings. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive negotiations. The magazine Noticias went so far as to call him “Viceroy Bennett,” implying that he was acting as a representative of the U.S. government in Argentina within a colonial relationship.
Congressman Cristian Ritondo of the right-wing party PRO, an ally of Milei, met with Bennett and dismissed criticism of U.S. involvement in Argentina as “populist.”
“Some prefer a Chinese swap, and some prefer an American swap,” he told the Herald, in reference to a US$18 billion currency swap between Argentina and China.
“We prefer to follow the democracy of the world, the most capitalist country. Populism will never like the most capitalist country in the world,” he added. Ritondo claimed that the bailout came with no strings attached. However, many analysts have said it could enable the U.S. to toughen its negotiating strategy over key Argentine raw materials — for instance, by asking that they be put up as collateral.
A test case for the dispute between China and the US
While negotiating the deal, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Milei was “committed to getting China out of Argentina.” The Asian country is Argentina’s second-largest trading partner, and his comments prompted a riposte from the Chinese Embassy in Argentina, accusing U.S. government officials of having a “Cold War mindset.”
A source familiar with the backchannel negotiations between Washington and Buenos Aires said the U.S. is eyeing Argentina’s lithium and uranium reserves and wants the government to phase out Chinese technology, even urging ministries to stop using products from the telecoms giant Huawei, an old obsession of Trump (citing cybersecurity reasons, he imposed fines on US companies using products from that Chinese company).
According to Busso, Argentina is “becoming a test case for the dispute between China and the United States, with the United States demanding that we consolidate its power on the continent, which is its major geopolitical objective.”
The proposal of a free trade deal with the U.S., which competes with Argentina as a supplier of key products including soybeans, as well as an executive order allowing 30 US naval officers to come to the country for joint exercises, have also been criticized.
“Milei has demonstrated, especially in the last month, that he has not even the slightest trace of the Argentine Republic’s history of autonomy — his vocation is clearly a neocolonial one, not to call it colonial outright,” Busso added.
Despite Milei’s apparently unconditional support for Trump, the U.S. leader’s support is not unconditional. During the pair’s meeting in the White House, he told onlookers that the U.S. “would not be generous with Argentina” unless Milei performed well during the elections.
Geopolitics aside, perhaps the person who best explains Trump’s total endorsement of Milei is the U.S. president himself. Last year, during a campaign speech in Richmond, Virginia, he said that Argentina “went MAGA.”
“He’s a big Trump guy. He loves Trump, I love him, because he loves Trump,” he said.
Not once in the speech did he refer to Milei by name.
Newspaper Reader.
Oct 30, 2025
Editor: This is the companion piece, to the Manhattan Institute’s latest Anti-Mamdani hysteria mongering. This reader awaits the charge that Mamdani is the reincarnation of Robespierre!
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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 a stumble, it a pratfall !
Newspaper Reader & Political Observer.
Good morning:
New Yorkers are days away from Tuesday’s mayoral contest and a new Manhattan Institute poll finds that there is a striking difference between frontrunner Zohran Mamdani’s electoral strength and support for his policy agenda.
The survey, conducted October 22–26, included 600 likely voters in the 2025 New York City mayoral election and 300 registered voters across New York State. As vice president of external affairs Jesse Arm writes in his analysis of the results, Assemblyman Mamdani leads the field and bests former governor Andrew Cuomo in a head-to-head matchup. At the same time, the majority of respondents oppose multiple progressive policy ideas: 58% of NYC voters oppose eliminating bus fares; 64% of state voters favor expanding gifted and talented education programs rather than scaling them back; and 55% favor repealing the city’s permissive bail reform laws.
Perhaps NYC is a blue city in a state that may tip purple? That would explain why the MI poll finds Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik ties with Democratic incumbent Governor Kathy Hochul in a potential 2026 gubernatorial contest.
Staying with the NYC mayoral race, director of cities John Ketcham looks at the strength of the Muslim vote among New Yorkers and how appealing to that coalition has played a role in the race, in UnHerd.
In City Journal, senior fellow Nicole Gelinas argues that New York’s wealthiest denizens will be better positioned than middle-class New Yorkers to “bear the brunt” of policy ideas like rent freezes, free bus fares, and swaps to police resources in favor of civilian outreach workers. These bold experiments in government are largely untested but will certainly have a captive audience.
NYC’s next mayor will also need to be prepared for another kind of audience—the 1.2 million visiting fútbol fanatics expected in July for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Cities policy analyst Santiago Vidal Calvo writes in City Journal that the city’s largest sporting event in its history will stress infrastructure, such as hotels, and city services, such as transportation and public safety. Managing the event preparations will be a mammoth task for any mayor, and a considerable test of his managerial skills.
In other news, senior fellow Allison Schrager evaluates the current phenomenon of low credit spreads, which usually suggests a low-risk economic environment. Yet “low risk,” Shrager writes in Bloomberg, “describes precisely nothing about this market.”
Finally, in a new paper released this week, adjunct fellow Jennifer Weber argues that mayoral control of education systems, leads to more successful long-term reform. Using mayoral control in NYC as a case study, Weber finds that the city closed achievement gaps with state and national averages on standardized tests while maintaining greater administrative efficiency than board-governed districts. The paper recommends NYC preserve mayoral control and suggests that other struggling districts adopt a similar governance structure.
Continue reading for all these insights and more.
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