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Urbanist: Mamdani’s Main Victims
Zohran Mamdani’s “agenda would disproportionately affect middle-class and poorer New Yorkers,” warns City Journal’s Nicole Gelinas.
His rent freeze will slam building upkeep and push house owners to go away “vacant units indefinitely empty rather than leasing them to new tenants at a loss” — and dangers “an equally radical reaction,” as “the increasingly conservative Supreme Court may see an indefinite rent freeze by mayoral whim” as purpose to strike down the rent legal guidelines solely.
Making buses free “could set off a cascade of revenue loss” for the MTA, as subway riders demand equal remedy and “suburban rail commuters, too, who pay far higher prices than subway and bus riders to commute.”
He goals to maneuver “many police duties, including approaching people who appear to be disturbed on subways and streets, to a new civilian corps of mental-health and homeless-outreach workers.”
Sorry: Without police backup, civilians will “avoid interacting with people who appear severely agitated — the people most in need of help.”
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From the correct: Trans Demands Warp Reality
The “growing list of examples” of how “trans ideology” is warping “justice and fairness” consists of the “remarkable leniency” of a mere eight-year jail time period for aspiring “transwoman” Nicholas Roske, the would-be Brett Kavanaugh murderer, frets Commentary’s Christine Rosen.
“Trans activists” haven’t sought “to persuade most Americans that their cause is either rational or just,” however have “increasingly been demanding not simply equal treatment, but special treatment.”
Groups just like the ACLU “made acceptance of trans ideology the new litmus test for inclusion,” and “Democratic politicians” and “mainstream media outlets” resolutely “insist on conforming.”
The “dangerous fantasies” of trans people and advocates can develop into “catastrophic realities” for the remaining of us.
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Conservative: Bessent’s Big Bet on Argentina
“Free marketeers have good reason to cheer, or at least sigh with relief, with [President Javier] Milei’s party doing well in the Argentinian midterm elections,” notes National Review’s Jim Geraghty.
The “Trump administration traded $20 billion in U.S. dollars for the equivalent amount in Argentinian pesos” this month, a metaphorical wager” by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent “that Milei’s party would do well in the midterms, and keep the country on a smaller-government, more free-market-oriented path.”
Milei’s Freedom Advances social gathering more than doubled its illustration in Congress, prompting a rally of the Argentinian peso; “Secretary Bessent, collect your winnings.”
DC watch: ‘Strong’ Case vs. ex-CIA Boss
In a felony referral to the Justice Department, Republicans allege ex-CIA head John Brennan lied to congressional investigators about “the Russian collusion matter” — and their case is “strong,” declares the Washington Examiner’s Byron York.
In testimony in 2017 and ’23, Brennan claimed the bogus anti-Trump Steele file that originated with the Hillary Clinton marketing campaign wasn’t a foundation for the Intelligence Community Assessment on the matter and that he’d opposed any reference to it within the report.
Yet newly declassified paperwork show “Brennan actually forced CIA analysts to use it,” overruling analysts who sought to go away it out. Thus: “The FBI and CIA both knew the dossier was BS,” however “included it anyway.”
“And then, under oath before Congress, John Brennan lied about it.”
Pollsters: Dems Must Hold Center To Win
“If Democrats want any shot at winning the White House in 2028 or beyond, they must follow the moderates in the political middle lane,” clarify Douglas Schoen & Carly Cooperman at The Hill.
The truth is “centrist candidates” who court docket “swing voters tend to do better than those who only appeal to the most ideological parts of their base.”
Last 12 months, “all 17 Democrats who won races in states or districts that went for President Trump” courted centrist voters by “moving to the middle on issues like immigration, crime, and social issues.”
Dems should seize “the center on the issues people care about — the economy, immigration and safety,” and so win back “the working class voters Democrats need in order to win a national election.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
