In the run-up to New York City's mayoral election, Donald Trump let loose with one of his signature, ill-tempered social-media rants, where he complained that Democrats "have crossed the line" by nominating Zohran Mamdani. Trump described him as "a 100% Communist Lunatic. We've had Radical Lefties before, but this is getting a little ridiculous."
Although I wish Trump would at least occasionally act presidential, I chuckled at this one. Democratic leaders actually were troubled by Mamdani's rise (although their preference for a disgraced former governor was equally dismaying), but Democratic voters handed Mamdani a solid victory despite his radical positions. Some of those include rent freezes, city-run grocery stores, a massive minimum-wage hike, government-financed housing projects and free public transit.
