What Mamdani reveals about ideology crowding out local governance
Setting aside Stephen Green’s flair for hyperbole over at PJ Media, he raises a valid concern about New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and the growing number of local leaders who try to govern globally instead of locally.
From Green’s article:
Mamdani sat down on Sunday with ABC 7’s Bill Ritter for an Up Close segment, and Ritter asked, “You said you’d arrest [Israeli PM] Benjamin Netanyahu, based on the 2024 International Criminal Court arrest warrant. Next general UN assembly, would you do that?”
But here’s the part of Mamdani’s reply that ought to prepare New Yorkers to get what they voted for, good, hard, and without the benefit of foreplay.
“I believe this is a city of international law,” Mamdani told Ritter, “and being a city of international law means looking to uphold international law.”
Talk about getting too big for your britches. Mamdani seems to think his job is to work the will of the international left — aka Commies — rather than attend to the needs of New Yorkers. You know, the idiots who idiotically voted for this unaccomplished cupcake.
Green goes on to set up a stark comparison: former Senator Alfonse D’Amato, who came up through the ranks in Long Island, politics, built a career on fixing potholes, meaning he vigorously made local concerns his highest priority. Mamdani seems intent on chasing or at least weighing in on global crusades. The result, Green warns, is that New Yorkers may find their mayor more absorbed in international ideology than in the daily work of governing a vast and complicated city, resulting in a lot of “feel good” symbolism over results.
—Ray Nothstine
— The Federalism Beat