The slow education of Mayor Zohran Mamdani is painful to watch, especially for those New Yorkers forced to pick up the tab for his willful ignorance.
His first 100 days in City Hall have come and gone but the nepo baby appears to have learned next to nothing, at least when it comes to dollars and … sense.
The socialist boy wonder ran and won on a campaign of extensive wish lists decorated with fanciful promises of free this and free that.
Anyone not born yesterday knew he was selling snake oil, but he proved to be a generational political talent and played the pied piper to the young and ideologically blinded followers who turned out for him in droves.
Since he took the oath, there have been only occasional signs that he realizes the job is more complicated than concocting campaign videos you can dance to.
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