Mamdani’s bitter victory speech: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s blunt victory speech, which did not attain out to all voters.
Michael Goodwin is correct to call Zohran Mamdani’s speech that of a “sore winner” — the petulant, vicious whine of an ungrateful, spoiled brat (“Finally we see the Mam behind the grin,” Nov. 6).
He is incapable of any non-ideological ideas, and even a modicum of political decency when the event warrants it.
Mamdani’s triumph is a unhappy day for New York City and America. Especially for many who maintain close to their hearts the Jewish thinker Emil Fackenheim’s notion — “the 614th mitzvah” — that Hitler ought to by no means be accorded a posthumous victory.
David Rabinovitz
Brooklyn
Winners like Mamdani have now employed a new speaking level for speeches: President Trump and how they’re going to go after him.
It sure seems like that’s their manner of bringing the nation back collectively again. R.I.P., NYC.
Sylvia Kane
Brooklyn
The Post says Mamdani was fast to be unfavourable towards his opponents quickly after being elected.
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Did you neglect about Trump’s inauguration speech, when he additionally stated unfavourable issues concerning the earlier administration?
Raymond Mangano
Brooklyn
If anybody retained any illusions concerning the tone and substance of Mamdani’s plans for New York City, he put these to relaxation in his victory speech.
Eschewing any unifying feedback towards those that didn’t vote for him, Mamdani spoke within the basic communist patois of class warfare and free providers, for which he recognized no means of fee.
He supplied not one phrase of outreach to those that stated they’d flee if he received and a mere one sentence to the biggest municipal Jewish population within the United States, now affected by violent antisemitism.
Daniel Trigoboff
Williamsville
Goodwin’s incorrect to assert Mamdani simply dropped his masks — his true colours have been all the time there. I’ve repeatedly stated the person is poison however no one was studying between his traces.
Unfortunately, those that noticed the horror will endure together with the gullibles who voted for him.
Susan Cienfuegos
New Rochelle
Thank you, New York City; your determination to elect somebody like Zohran Mamdani has set in movement the idea for actual leisure for the remainder of the nation.
As he makes an attempt to meet his guarantees, we’ll be witnessing the collapse of your great metropolis.
Ron Heimer
Yuma, Ariz.
The Issue: Tucker Carlson inviting white-nationalist Nick Fuentes on the “Tucker Carlson Show.”
Fox News did us a great service when it eliminated Tucker Carlson from its airways in 2023 (“Tucker & The ‘Toad,’ ” Rich Lowry, Nov. 4).
After being faraway from cable information and becoming a member of the universe of podcasting, he has degenerated into a paranoid conspiracy theorist and antisemite by internet hosting people like Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens.
There have been indicators on Fox News that Carlson was going towards the deep finish when he hosted Kanye West, a mental case and antisemite.
I suppose Carlson has taken this observe to stand-out within the jungle of podcasters.
Mark Seitelman
Manhattan
I all the time suspected that Tucker Carlson’s corny outbursts of laughter signaled one thing was amiss together with his thoughts, and now his pernicious platforming of an alt-right neo-Nazi like Nick Fuentes has confirmed my suspicions.
Carlson has creepily proven he’s a legal responsibility to the conservative motion. His disingenuous “free-speech gadfly” posturing is nothing however mental poison.
James Hyland
Beechhurst
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