There is already a queue as long as the one conjured up by Saatchi & Saatchi on their famous Labour Isn’t Working poster to have a pop at the self-declared ‘democratic socialist’ Zohran Mamdani, the man who will probably be the next mayor of New York.
Friends of mine in the city have told me they think he’s a mad man, not least because he wants to banish billionaires from Manhattan (”I don’t think we should have them”) and inject some good old-fashioned Bolshevism into Manhattan’s famous antediluvian arteries. Admittedly, New York needs a new mayor – Eric Adams has been a disaster – but electing Mamdani will simply semaphore to the average American that the left is perfectly happy to stay where it is, outside the White House, still gawping with envy and disbelief through the railings.
