What a pleasant surprise! The New York Times’ editorial board not only deigned to address city politics early Monday, it even echoed our advice in the Sunday Post: Democratic primary voters shouldn’t give Zohran Mamdani even a fifth-place vote; leave him off your ballots entirely!
More, the Times declared that “a certain version of progressive city management has failed” — the version pushed by Mayor Bill de Blasio that “was skeptical of if not hostile to law enforcement,” claimed “schools needed more money and less evaluation” and “blamed greedy landlords for high rents, instead of emphasizing the crucial role of housing supply.”
Mamdani has embraced “an agenda uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges” that “reads like a turbocharged version of Mr. de Blasio’s dismaying mayoralty.”
Worst, “he shows little concern about the disorder of the past decade, even though its costs have fallen hardest on the city’s working-class and poor residents.”
We have no idea what’s going on inside The Times Building, and won’t be surprised if much of the editorial board quits over this fit of common sense — but we’ll enjoy it while it lasts.
