Mamdani meets with Trump
Mamdani is a smooth operator with high emotional intelligence, so he knew exactly how to handle Trump. I'm sure he was prepared.
If Trump wasn't a self-centered idiot, he might have asked Mamdani why, when a crowd of antisemitic scum was chanting "death to the IDF" outside a synagogue, instead of condemning the protesters, Mamdani condemned the people inside the synagogue who were holding an event for Nefesh b'Nefesh, and said that it was "illegal" for Americans to emigrate to Israel. I can't believe he would have reacted the same to a group of anti-Muslim protesters chanting outside a mosque that was holding an event recruiting for UNRWA or whatever would be the equivalent. He would have condemned those protesters and reminded everyone that people who live in the US shouldn't be held responsible for what their co-religionists are doing overseas.
What makes Mamdani dangerous aren't his ideas--Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, and Tucker Carlson are much worse--it's his undeniable charisma. He's going to be the face of the Democratic party for the next few years, so his failures (and I don't see any sign that he is any more capable of running NYC than Trump is of running the US) are going to be the Democrats' failures. He's also going to amplify the growing conflict between the Democratic old guard and the up and coming progressives. But just as Nick Fuentes et al. exemplify right wing antisemitism (they don't GAF about Palestinians, they just hate Jews), Mamdani exemplifies the antisemitism of the left, where they will assure you that they don't hate Jews at all ("some of the best people in our movement are Jewish"), they just hate "Zionists," which is the polite left-wing term. The fact that Mamdani has fooled a lot of liberal Jews (although he would have been elected without them) isn't encouraging. And now he's fooled Trump, not that it was particularly difficult. Maybe they can bond over their mutual hatred of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
If Trump wasn't a self-centered idiot, he might have asked Mamdani why, when a crowd of antisemitic scum was chanting "death to the IDF" outside a synagogue, instead of condemning the protesters, Mamdani condemned the people inside the synagogue who were holding an event for Nefesh b'Nefesh, and said that it was "illegal" for Americans to emigrate to Israel. I can't believe he would have reacted the same to a group of anti-Muslim protesters chanting outside a mosque that was holding an event recruiting for UNRWA or whatever would be the equivalent. He would have condemned those protesters and reminded everyone that people who live in the US shouldn't be held responsible for what their co-religionists are doing overseas.
What makes Mamdani dangerous aren't his ideas--Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, and Tucker Carlson are much worse--it's his undeniable charisma. He's going to be the face of the Democratic party for the next few years, so his failures (and I don't see any sign that he is any more capable of running NYC than Trump is of running the US) are going to be the Democrats' failures. He's also going to amplify the growing conflict between the Democratic old guard and the up and coming progressives. But just as Nick Fuentes et al. exemplify right wing antisemitism (they don't GAF about Palestinians, they just hate Jews), Mamdani exemplifies the antisemitism of the left, where they will assure you that they don't hate Jews at all ("some of the best people in our movement are Jewish"), they just hate "Zionists," which is the polite left-wing term. The fact that Mamdani has fooled a lot of liberal Jews (although he would have been elected without them) isn't encouraging. And now he's fooled Trump, not that it was particularly difficult. Maybe they can bond over their mutual hatred of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
