New York's Real 'Affordability' Problem is Government
Even as many Republicans were preparing to paint Democrats as the ‘Party of Mamdani’, President Trump’s staffers invited Zohran Mamdani for a high-profile chat with Trump. Vice President J.D. Vance, who had previously mocked Mamdani, now calls him “fascinating”. “Obviously, I’m not a communist, and I think he is,” Vance argued, “but the fact that he focuses so aggressively on the affordability question in New York City, which does have one of the worst affordability crises anywhere in the world, is smart, and he’s at least listening to people.” “Most politicians, it’s a very low bar, but they don’t even listen to people. I would put Mamdani, Bernie and Ro Khanna in the category of those who, at least sometimes, they are.” “I’ve always been fascinated by Bernie,” Vance also claimed, saying that if he repeated what the Vermont socialist had told him, “it would probably really hurt me on both the left and the right.” Naive comments like these show how institutional knowledge of Communism...