William F. Buckley Jr once said:
he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty.Now, New York City is about to be governed by someone akin to a Columbia University student body member.
Zohran Mamdani, a product of the academy, seems uninformed, entitled, and self-important, enjoying a quality of life that depends on a civilization he knows little about, yet scornfully criticizes.
American college students, including Mamdani, often act out psychodramas of oppression, and he is poised to take this performative grievance to a big stage.
Author's summary: Zohran Mamdani's election may harm New York.