Be careful what you wish for.
I’m not just referring to the enthusiastic Zohran Mamdani voters who believe that the failed rapper and nepo baby is the person best suited to run this city. Nor am I referring to the fashionistas at Vanity Fair who this week swooned over Mamdani’s apparently “Kennedy-like charisma.”
I am referring to some Republicans who are starting to see a silver lining in the socialist’s mayoral run.
Since Mamdami won the Democratic primary for mayor in July, it has been whispered in Republican circles that there may be a positive in Mamdani’s projected arrival in Gracie Mansion.
This week, that whispering became public conversation.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an interview: “I kind of like Mamdani winning, because the worst thing in a way would be when [Andrew] Cuomo comes back in, you just keep losing a little bit of altitude for four or eight more years, and they kind of hold it together, and more people leave. So if you could just say, ‘OK, he’s a shock to the system, and there’s a chance you can come back from it.’ ”
Conservative guru George Will has looked at things in a similar way. Speaking on Bill Maher recently, Will said of Mamdani, “I want him to win,” continuing, “Every 20 years or so, we need a conspicuous, confined experiment with socialism so we can crack it up again.”
Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post
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Douglas Murray is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor of City Journal.
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