> Professor, you have always struck me as one of the more reasonable users on Poal. I'm far more reasonable here online than in the real world. > What is your actual take on the rise of Zohran Mamdani in NYC politics? NYC is fucked if they elect this asshole, and most of them deserve to be fucked good and hard. I was born and raised there and remember the Koch and Dinkins years. The city was a festering pustule of leftist policies. Giuliani turned it around a little, but Bloomberg, De Blasio, and Adams took it right back down the shitter. Here's the reason. It's a big city and it is filled with jews, niggers and spics. Most recently it has suffered an influx of pajeets, pakis, and other assorted islamists. They all vote hard left. I feel bad for the regular white folks who try to hold on to a sense of what things were because they're stuck there (for one reason or another). Every one I know who can leave the city already has. There are holdouts in Staten Island and Brooklyn that are trying to turn things around but they're being overrun, figuratively and literally. I commend them for not giving in, but do not hold out hope for their success.