Mamdani won overwhelmingly because of three distinct cohorts: “educated” women, “educated” men, and non-native New Yorkers (both domestic transplants and immigrants)..."...So what do we do about it?...
- The actual problem is what gave rise to him in the first place, and that is an issue we can fix in one presidential term.
Have you seen this style of short-form video?
They start off with some kid in college graduation garb.
Usually it’s an expensive school, NYU, Columbia, Harvard or something.
The kid will say, “I majored in the decolonization of early Roman history,” or some neo-Marxist mumbo jumbo.
Right then, the video will cut to a conservative saying something to the effect of, “That’s great, I’ll have a large espresso latte, please.”...They’ll end up working at a coffee shop in New York City’s Bushwick, forever in debt, the American dream forever out of reach amid skyrocketing home prices and grocery prices.
Eventually, given a choice, these folks will vote for socialism.
- Here’s the rub, though: Instead of mocking them, we can actually prevent this from happening.
“When 70% of Millennials say they are pro-socialist,
we need to do better than simply dismiss them by saying that they are stupid or entitled or brainwashed; we should try and understand why,”
reads an email Peter Thiel wrote to a host of Big Tech bigwigs in
2020...
