From the River to the Sea: Ibaitik Itsasora (181) eta Zohran Mamdani (c)

Ibaitik Itsasora

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“Einstein said, “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” This statement reflects the understanding that a third world war could mean the end of civilization. Today, this realization should restrain us from taking extremely dangerous actions in the international arena that threaten our modern civilization.” – President Putin

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From the River to the Sea: Ibaitik Itsasora (176) eta Zohran Mamdani (a)

From the River to the Sea: Ibaitik Itsasora (177) eta Zohran Mamdani (b)

Segida:

Zohran Kwame Mamdani@ZohranKMamdani

Joshua Reed Eakle @JoshEakle

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Eric Blanc (also at ericblanc. b s k y )@_ericblanc

Jackson Hinkle @jacksonhinklle

Harvey Epstein@HarveyforNY·

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Al Jazeera English@AJEnglish

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Khalissee@Kahlissee

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Mamdani’s Muslim crowd greets their new mayor: “Allah Akbar! Allah Akbar!” You idiots were so duped lol

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Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani Wins Historic NYC Mayoral Race: “The Future Is in Our Hands”

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNvCNhwzYlI)

Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York mayoral race, defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo. A year ago, Mamdani was polling at just 1%, but on Tuesday he became the first New York mayoral candidate to win over a million votes since the 1960s. Mamdani won despite being vastly outspent by Cuomo, who was backed by a group of billionaires. We play part of Mamdani’s victory speech to supporters at the Brooklyn Paramount, in which he vows to stand up to President Trump and acknowledges his unlikely path to Gracie Mansion: “I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older. I am Muslim. I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this.”

Transkripzioa:

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On Tuesday, Democrats won major

0:02

victories across the United States,

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including in California, Virginia,

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Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and here in

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New York. In what’s widely being seen as

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a repudiation of President Trump’s

0:14

agenda in the most closely watched race,

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Zoran Mamani won the New York mayoral

0:20

race, defeating former Governor Andrew

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Cuomo. The 34year-old Democratic

0:25

socialist state assembly member will

0:27

become the first Muslim and first South

0:30

Asian to serve as New York mayor. In

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June, he shocked the political

0:34

establishment when he beat Cuomo in the

0:37

Democratic primary. Cuomo went on to run

0:39

in the general election as an

0:41

independent, but on Tuesday, Mdani

0:43

defeated him again. A year ago, Mdani

0:47

was polling at just 1%. But he built a

0:50

historic grassroots coalition to fuel

0:53

what Senator Bernie Sanders has called

0:55

quote one of the great political upsets

0:58

in modern American history.

1:01

On Tuesday, Zoran Mandani became the

1:03

first New York mayoral candidate to win

1:06

over a million votes since the 1960s,

1:10

more than Rudy Giuliani or Mike

1:12

Bloomberg ever received. Mandani has

1:15

received 50.4% 4% of the votes counted

1:18

so far. Cuomo is at 41.6%.

1:22

Republican Curtis Leewis at 7.1%.

1:25

Mdani won even though many prominent

1:28

Democrats, including Senate Minority

1:31

Leader Chuck Schumer, the New York

1:34

Senator, refused to endorse him. Mdani

1:38

was also vastly outspent by Cuomo, who’s

1:41

backed by a group of billionaires.

1:43

President Trump endorsed Cuomo and

1:46

repeatedly threatened to cut off federal

1:48

funds to New York if Mamani won. On

1:52

Tuesday night, Zoron Mdani addressed

1:54

supporters who packed into the Brooklyn

1:57

Paramount. He began his speech by

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quoting the late labor leader and

2:02

socialist Eugene Debs.

2:04

The sun may have set over our city this

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evening,

2:10

but as Eugene Debs once said,

2:16

I can see the dawn of a better day for

2:18

humanity.

2:24

For as long as we can remember, the

2:27

working people of New York have been

2:29

told by the wealthy and the

2:31

well-connected that power does not

2:33

belong in their hands.

2:36

Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on

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the warehouse floor.

2:42

Palms calloused from delivery bike

2:44

handlebars.

2:46

Knuckles scarred with kitchen burns.

2:49

These are not hands that have been

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allowed to hold power.

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And yet over the last 12 months,

2:56

you have dared to reach for something

2:58

greater.

3:03

Tonight, against all odds, we have

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grasped it.

3:11

The future is in our hands,

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my friends. We have toppled a political

3:20

dynasty.

3:35

I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in

3:38

private life.

3:43

But let tonight be the final time I

3:46

utter his name

3:50

as we turn the page on a politics that

3:53

abandons the many and answers only to

3:56

the few.

4:01

New York, tonight you have delivered

4:06

a mandate for change.

4:11

A mandate for a new kind of politics.

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A mandate for a city we can afford

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and a mandate for a government that

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delivers exactly that.

4:28

On January 1st,

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I will be sworn in as the mayor of New

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York City.

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And that is because of you.

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So before I say anything else, I must

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say this. Thank you.

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Thank you to the next generation of New

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Yorkers who refuse to accept that the

5:03

promise of a better future was a relic

5:06

of the past.

5:09

You showed that when politics speaks to

5:11

you without condescension, we can usher

5:14

in a new era of leadership.

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We will fight for you because we are

5:21

you.

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or as we say on Steinway.

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Thank you to those so often forgotten by

5:38

the politics of our city who made this

5:40

movement their own.

5:43

I speak of Yemen bodega owners and

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Mexican abuelas,

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seneagalles taxi drivers and usuzbck

5:52

nurses,

5:56

Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian

5:58

aunties.

6:02

Yes, aunties.

6:08

To every New Yorker in Kensington and

6:11

Midwood and Huns Point,

6:16

know this. This city is your city and

6:20

this democracy is yours, too.

6:23

[Applause]

6:27

This campaign is about people like

6:29

Wesley, an 1199 organizer I met outside

6:33

of Elmherst Hospital on Thursday night,

6:37

a New Yorker who lives elsewhere, who

6:40

commutes 2 hours each way from

6:42

Pennsylvania because rent is too

6:45

expensive in this city.

6:48

It’s about people like the woman I met

6:50

on the BX33 years ago

6:53

who said to me,

6:55

I used to love New York, but now it’s

6:57

just where I live.

7:00

And it’s about people like Richard,

7:04

the taxi driver I went on a 15-day

7:07

hunger strike with outside of city hall,

7:13

who still has to drive his cab seven

7:15

days a week.

7:18

My brother, we are in city hall now.

7:24

Standing before you, I think of the

7:27

words of Joel Lalu.

7:31

A moment comes but rarely in history.

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When we step out from the old to the

7:36

new. When an age ends and when the soul

7:39

of a nation long suppressed finds

7:42

utterance.

7:43

Tonight we have stepped out from the old

7:46

into the new.

7:50

So let us speak now with clarity and

7:53

conviction that cannot be misunderstood

7:56

about what this new age will deliver and

7:58

for whom.

8:00

This will be an age where New Yorkers

8:03

expect from their leaders a bold vision

8:05

of what we will achieve rather than a

8:08

list of excuses for what we are too

8:10

timid to attempt.

8:16

Central to that vision will be the most

8:18

ambitious agenda to tackle the cost of

8:20

living crisis that this city has seen

8:23

since the days of Fierel Auardia.

8:31

An agenda that will freeze the rents for

8:33

more than 2 million rentstabilized

8:35

tenants.

8:39

Together, we will usher in a generation

8:42

of change.

8:43

And if we embrace this brave new course

8:47

rather than fleeing from it, we can

8:49

respond to oligarchy and

8:51

authoritarianism with the strength it

8:54

fears, not the appeasement it craves.

9:01

After all, if anyone can show a nation

9:05

betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat

9:07

him, it is the city that gave rise to

9:10

him.

9:15

And if there is any way to terrify a

9:18

desperate, it is by dismantling the very

9:21

conditions that allowed him to

9:22

accumulate power.

9:27

This is not only how we stop Trump, it’s

9:30

how we stop the next one.

9:36

So, Donald Trump, since I know you’re

9:39

watching,

9:41

I have four words for you. Turn the

9:46

volume up.

10:10

We will hold bad landlords to account

10:13

because the Donald Trumps of our city

10:16

have grown far too comfortable taking

10:18

advantage of their tenants.

10:22

We will put an end to the culture of

10:24

corruption that has allowed billionaires

10:26

like Trump to evade taxation and exploit

10:30

tax breaks.

10:34

We will stand alongside unions and

10:36

expand labor protections because we know

10:41

just as Donald Trump does that when

10:44

working people have ironclad rights, the

10:47

bosses who seek to extort them become

10:50

very small. Indeed,

10:55

New York will remain a city of

10:58

immigrants. A city built by immigrants,

11:03

powered by immigrants,

11:07

and as of tonight, led by an immigrant.

11:26

So hear me, President Trump, when I say

11:29

this. To get to any of us, you will have

11:32

to get through all of us.

11:42

When we enter city hall in 58 days,

11:46

expectations will be high.

11:49

We will meet them.

11:54

A great New Yorker once said that while

11:56

you campaign in poetry, you govern in

11:59

pros.

12:01

If that must be true, let the pros we

12:04

write still rhyme and let us build a

12:07

shining city for all.

12:12

And we must chart a new path as bold as

12:15

the one we have already traveled. After

12:18

all, the conventional wisdom would tell

12:21

you that I am far from the perfect

12:23

candidate.

12:25

I am young despite my best efforts to

12:27

grow older.

12:29

I am Muslim.

12:34

I am a democratic socialist.

12:41

And most damning of all, I refuse to

12:44

apologize for any of this.

12:50

Zoran Mamani speaking at his victory

12:53

party Tuesday night at the Brooklyn

12:56

Paramount after he won the New York City

12:59

mayor race, defeating former Governor

13:01

Andrew Cuomo. After his speech, he was

13:04

joined on stage by his wife Rama Dwaji

13:08

and his parents, the filmmaker Mera Na

13:11

and Colombia University professor Mahmud

13:14

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Why Zohran Won

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7dJYEJ31rc)

Transkripzioa:

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[Music]

0:06

All right. Now, I want to focus on a

0:09

couple of the really fascinating parts

0:11

of this campaign because there were in

0:15

this campaign, despite again the very

0:16

real possibility that Zoran Mandani will

0:18

basically just be a standard kind of

0:21

nice left liberal Democratic party

0:23

politician, not doing very much that’s

0:25

very controversial. He’ll be used by

0:27

Republicans as kind of a fear-mongering

0:29

tool, but it’s possible his his morality

0:33

will be him

0:35

being very accommodating, more so than a

0:36

lot of people think, to the power center

0:38

he’s supposed to oppose. Who knows,

0:40

maybe he won’t be, but but there’s

0:41

certainly a big expectation. But looking

0:44

backward, there were definitely moments

0:46

that were incredibly interesting for the

0:49

moment that we’re in. And I think none

0:51

is more so than the moment in the

0:54

primary that was held, the primary

0:57

debate in the New York City Democratic

0:59

primary when you had Mandani and Andrew

1:02

Cuomo and six or seven other more minor

1:04

candidates who debated on television.

1:08

And the question that was asked, and it

1:10

was obviously intended to see what

1:11

Madani was going to say, but it was

1:12

asked of all the candidates, is if you

1:14

were to win and become New York City’s

1:16

mayor, which country would you make as

1:19

your first stop in a foreign visit?

1:23

Now, I’m not even sure why mayors make

1:25

visits to foreign countries. I suppose

1:28

there are times when it’s appropriate.

1:30

Maybe they have exchanges between cities

1:34

or partnerships or or some kind of trade

1:37

deals. I’m not saying I can never

1:39

imagine it. But in general, foreign

1:41

policy is run by Washington. Trade deals

1:43

for states are run by governors.

1:46

It’s certainly not something that would

1:47

ever be in the absence of Zoran and the

1:49

Israel question on the minds of anybody.

1:51

And yet the Israel question is always on

1:53

the minds these days of our elections

1:56

and our media. And so they asked this

1:58

question and it’s remarkable to compare

2:00

how every person on that stage running

2:02

for to be the nominee of the Democratic

2:06

party for mayor answered the question

2:07

and how radically different the answer

2:10

from Zoron was.

2:16

The first foreign visit by a mayor of

2:18

New York is always considered

2:19

significant. Where would you go first?

2:22

Right. Mr. Adams.

2:24

first visit. I would visit the Holy

2:26

Land.

2:27

Mr. Cuomo,

2:28

given the hostility and the

2:30

anti-semitism that has been uh shown in

2:33

New York, I would go to Israel.

2:35

Mr. Tilson, where would you go?

2:36

Yeah, I’d make my fourth trip to Israel,

2:38

followed by my fifth trip to Ukraine,

2:40

two of our greatest allies um fighting

2:42

on the front lines of the global war on

2:45

terror.

2:46

Mr. Mani,

2:47

I would stay in New York City. My plans

2:49

are to address New Yorkers across the

2:51

five burrows and focus on that.

2:52

Mr. Mr. Mani, can I just jump in? Would

2:54

you visit Israel

2:57

as mayor?

2:57

I will be doing as the mayor. I’ll be

2:59

standing up for Jewish New Yorkers and

3:00

I’ll be meeting them wherever they are

3:02

across the five burrows, whether that’s

3:03

in their synagogues and temples or at

3:06

their homes or at the subway platform

3:07

because ultimately we need to focus on

3:10

delivering on their concerns.

3:12

Yes or no? Do you believe in a Jewish

3:13

state of Israel?

3:14

I believe Israel has the right to exist

3:17

as a Jewish state as a state with equal

3:18

rights. He won’t say it has a right to

3:22

exist as a Jewish state. Be very

3:23

and his answer was no. He won’t visit

3:25

Israel.

3:25

I I said that

3:26

that’s what he was trying to say.

3:27

No, no. Unlike you, I answer unlike you.

3:29

I answer question directly.

3:31

My goal would be to take my first trip

3:33

to Israel. My wife’s life work in this

3:35

area means a lot to our family.

3:38

All right. It’s such a it’s such a kind

3:41

of microcosm of of American politics.

3:44

You know, I said this before, but for as

3:45

long as I can remember, I can think of

3:48

so many presidential and vice

3:49

presidential debates where this was

3:50

true, where you would have the

3:52

candidates fighting over who is more

3:54

pro-Israel,

3:56

but this isn’t even a presidential

4:00

uh debate where at least foreign policy

4:02

should be asked about every aspect of it

4:04

because it is the purview of an American

4:06

president. Why should a New York City

4:09

mayoral candidate even have to talk

4:10

about their foreign policy at all?

4:13

And it’s true, Zoran has criticized

4:16

Israel and its uh genocide in Gaza and

4:18

US support for it, but he didn’t make

4:20

that anything close to the centerpiece

4:22

of his campaign. That was raised by

4:24

other people who thought that was his

4:25

big vulnerability. You could see how

4:27

excited Andrew Cuomo was. one of the

4:29

most excited moments he had in the last

4:31

I would say decade but certainly when

4:33

running for mayor where he thought that

4:35

was going to be what would turn New York

4:37

uh residents against New York voters

4:39

against Zoran Mandani was that he

4:41

wouldn’t vow that the not just that to

4:43

visit Israel but that that would be the

4:44

very first country that he would visit

4:47

and what Zuran said should be so

4:50

unnotable

4:52

that you shouldn’t even have to say it

4:53

as a politician you’re running for New

4:54

York City mayor you shouldn’t have to

4:56

say my priority isn’t going to be to go

4:59

visit foreign countries and make

5:01

pilgrimage to other foreign countries.

5:02

I’m running for mayor of New York City.

5:04

I want to govern New York City. I want

5:06

to focus on the lives of people who live

5:08

in New York City, not in Tel Aviv or

5:10

Jerusalem.

5:11

And yet in our politics where the

5:14

expectation is is that you pledge

5:15

loyalty to Israel as you saw reflexively

5:17

every other one of those candidates do

5:21

they perceive these kind of political

5:23

veterans, people who are not in contact

5:25

or in touch with the prevailing new way

5:29

of understanding these issues,

5:31

especially among younger voters. They

5:33

thought that was a huge gap that was

5:34

going to bring him down.

5:36

And

5:38

he didn’t say, “I’m not going to go to

5:39

Israel. I don’t want to go to Israel,

5:40

but I’m going to go to all these other

5:42

countries. He just said, “My focus is on

5:44

Americans or or New Yorkers in this

5:46

case.” And I think that’s what most

5:49

people want to hear. And yet, they

5:51

barely ever hear that. And if they do

5:53

hear it, they rarely see the actions

5:55

that are followed up on it. I That was

5:58

one of the most notable parts of this

6:01

election because it said so much not

6:03

just about Zoran’s candidacy and why he

6:05

won, but also our politics more

6:08

generally.

6:09

Now, I’ve talked about this before, but

6:12

I didn’t know much about Zoron uh at the

6:14

end of 2024 or early 2025. I knew he was

6:18

a kind of left-wing assemblyman from

6:21

Queens associated with DSA, but I I

6:23

didn’t have an opinion about him. Uh I

6:26

didn’t know much about him. I knew that

6:27

he had cited my articles before. I’ve

6:30

seen him do that. I knew he followed me

6:32

online, but I didn’t have an opinion

6:34

about him at all one way or the other.

6:37

And

6:39

this was what really first not only

6:40

caught my attention but made me

6:43

impressed with his political skills. And

6:45

I said it at the time. It’s not like I’m

6:46

just saying it now. In retrospect, I go

6:48

he won and I I saw this early. I

6:50

actually went on Twitter and posted

6:52

about this and recommended this video

6:55

and said this is really an interesting

6:57

candidate and an interesting candidacy

6:59

that I think could end up making a lot

7:00

of impact. And the reason for that was

7:03

this was fairly shortly after Donald

7:04

Trump won beat Kla Harris. It was

7:07

November 15th, so barely a week after

7:10

Trump won. And most Democrats were

7:12

either in such meltdown, crisis, panic

7:17

mode that they could barely speak. They

7:18

were in this days for weeks, if not

7:21

months.

7:22

or they were just lashing out and

7:24

calling everybody a racist and a fascist

7:26

and a Nazi and warning that we were

7:27

headed toward concentration camps and

7:30

dictatorship.

7:32

And what Zelron decided to do instead of

7:34

being paralyzed with shock and fear or

7:37

resorting to accusing people who voted

7:40

for Trump of being racist and Nazis was

7:42

he decided to do something which

7:44

politicians ought to do, but which they

7:45

so rarely do, which is he just went not

7:47

just on the on the street in some kind

7:49

of photo op, but he purposely sought out

7:52

the neighborhoods that had huge swings

7:55

toward Donald Trump. In fact, some New

7:57

York City neighborhoods and they weren’t

7:59

wealthy neighborhoods. They were mostly

8:01

outer burrow multi-racial working-class

8:04

neighborhoods. Had among the biggest

8:06

shifts

8:07

as compared to 2020 from voting Democrat

8:10

and they had the highest numbers of

8:12

people moving, migrating to vote for

8:15

Trump. And he wanted to go find those

8:16

people who had previously voted Democrat

8:19

but this time voted Trump. And he wanted

8:21

to understand why they did that. He

8:23

wasn’t looking to demonize them. He

8:24

wasn’t looking to impose preconceived

8:27

notions on them. he really listened

8:30

and that he constructed his campaign

8:32

around the answers that he was given and

8:35

the way he asked the questions, the

8:37

demeanor he exhibited, the respect he

8:39

had for voters that wasn’t contrived but

8:41

was genuine and that they could see was

8:43

genuine and so opened up and talked to

8:44

him just really impressed me. Especially

8:48

because this is what you ought to be

8:50

doing if you want to actually understand

8:53

voters as opposed to manipulating them

8:55

and controlling them. just take a look

8:58

at at some of what he did. And even

8:59

beyond the Zorban issue, it was super

9:01

interesting to hear immigrant

9:04

working-class people in New York, black

9:05

voters in New York, people in

9:07

workingclass neighborhoods talk about

9:10

why they voted for Trump.

9:11

Did you get a chance to vote on Tuesday?

9:13

I didn’t vote.

9:14

And why did you not vote?

9:16

Because I don’t believe in the system

9:18

anymore.

9:18

Did you get a chance to vote on Tuesday?

9:20

Yes.

9:20

And who did you vote for?

9:21

Trump.

9:22

Ah, the million-dollar question. Trump.

9:24

Uh, Trump.

9:25

Donald Trump. Well, actually, but early

9:26

voted. I voted for Trump.

9:28

Honestly, I didn’t vote.

9:30

She voted for Trump.

9:31

I voted for Trump.

9:32

I vote for Trump.

9:33

Me, too.

9:33

Before I vote Democrat. At this moment,

9:35

I voted Donald Trump.

9:36

Hillside Avenue in Queens and Fortm Road

9:38

in the Bronx are two areas that saw the

9:40

biggest shift towards Trump in last

9:42

week’s election. Even more residents

9:44

didn’t vote at all.

9:44

They like Trump because they don’t want

9:47

the Palestinian, the brothers, the

9:49

killed. The war in Ukraine, the

9:51

Democrats giving all the money and the

9:53

war. This no good. The swing is because

9:55

people want lower prices. They probably

9:57

believe that Trump would give them that

9:58

market,

9:59

energy, gas,

10:02

food.

10:03

Most of these people are working

10:05

families. They’re working one to two,

10:07

three jobs, and rent is expensive. Foods

10:09

are going up, utility bills are up.

10:11

And that’s your hope to see a little bit

10:13

more of an affordable life.

10:14

Absolutely.

10:16

I mean, these are things you never hear

10:18

from

10:20

cable news studios or from the political

10:22

class in Washington because they have

10:23

completely different lives than the

10:25

people that you watch everyone talking

10:26

to. This is a much larger much longer

10:28

video at least like 10 15 minutes and it

10:31

was the same sort of thing over and

10:32

over. Some of them talked about

10:33

immigration felt resentment that people

10:35

are coming to the country illegally and

10:36

getting more benefits than they even

10:38

though they had were born in the United

10:40

States. Their families were here for

10:41

generations.

10:43

And these were not right-wing

10:45

ideologues who were saying, “Oh, I hate

10:47

liberals.” These were people who were

10:48

talking about just the kinds of issues

10:50

that ordinary people actually care about

10:52

and vote on that became the centerpiece

10:54

of Iran’s affordability campaign.

10:57

And that is when you watch people who

11:01

aren’t professional junkies or or

11:03

political junkies who speak, you realize

11:07

this in a very visceral way. the breach

11:10

between our national professional

11:12

political discourse and what most people

11:14

talk about. I’m not claiming to be in

11:16

touch with it. I grew up in it, but

11:19

obviously my life is different now. And

11:20

I think you have to be humble about

11:22

that. And so when you see this, when you

11:23

see polls, you can see the the the

11:25

glaring disparity. And the only way you

11:27

can see that is by going like he did to

11:29

talk to people.

11:31

Remember throughout 2024

11:34

the overwhelming predominant narrative

11:38

of the Democratic party about the

11:39

economy was that the economy was doing

11:42

extremely well. Joe Biden had enacted

11:46

legislation that in so many ways had

11:49

improved the material well-being of the

11:51

working class and the poor, but that

11:54

they just didn’t appreciate it enough

11:56

because the Democratic Party wasn’t

11:58

communicating it enough or these people

12:01

just can’t comprehend why their lives

12:03

are better. And then here they are

12:06

saying things like, “We can’t afford our

12:08

rent. The rent keeps going up. We have

12:09

to get two jobs. We can’t take care of

12:11

our kids.” And the these two worlds are

12:15

growing ever further apart. It really is

12:17

the the Versailles model where the

12:20

elite, the people who work inside the

12:22

royal court in Washington live behind

12:24

these walls. They look at the the

12:26

peasants because they want to keep them

12:29

under control and manage them, but they

12:30

have no connection to them. I’m not

12:33

saying going one day and holding a

12:35

microphone in front of some people’s

12:36

face is some impressive act of political

12:39

authenticity, but he did this a lot. And

12:43

he he shaped his campaign not on the

12:46

basis of the Democratic Socialist of

12:48

America political agenda or some

12:50

left-wing dogma or on Marx. He shaped it

12:54

on the basis of things he was hearing

12:56

from New Yorkers about their everyday

12:57

lives in a way that you and again he

13:00

could be the biggest fraud in the world.

13:02

But the campaign itself was unusual and

13:05

remarkable in how it did this.

13:09

I think one of the things that really

13:10

amazed people and that for me was one of

13:13

the best ads I’ve seen in a while is

13:15

when Zoron, despite being a socialist,

13:19

made an entire video on the struggles of

13:21

small business owners to try and make

13:23

profit given the realities of the

13:28

economy in New York. And he did so by

13:30

focusing on what every New Yorker sees

13:32

all the time, especially working-class

13:34

New Yorkers, which are street vendors,

13:35

especially halal uh people who selling

13:37

halal in food trucks and looking at the

13:41

economic realities that these people who

13:43

work extremely hard. You go to these

13:45

food trucks, those people get there very

13:47

early in the morning to accommodate

13:49

people who are working early or they get

13:52

there at lunch hour and work all

13:54

throughout the night. And these people

13:55

sit in these trucks and they prepare

13:56

food all day. it is heard break

13:58

backbreaking work good honest real work

14:01

and he wanted to understand the

14:03

mechanics of why they’re struggling so

14:05

much as a window into understanding why

14:08

New Yorkers in general are struggling so

14:10

much economically

14:12

just the kind of thing that should that

14:13

our politics should so obviously focus

14:15

on and yet listen to national political

14:18

discourse how much do you ever hear of

14:20

things like this

14:21

New York is suffering from a crisis and

14:23

it’s called halalflation

14:28

Today we’re going to get to the bottom

14:30

of this.

14:32

How much does a plate of halal cost

14:34

right now from this truck?

14:35

$10.

14:36

$10.

14:36

Chicken over rice. Lamb over rice is

14:38

$10.

14:39

$10.

14:39

Yeah.

14:40

When you’re a street vendor, you have to

14:42

pay for the food, the plates. How much

14:46

do you have to pay for your permit?

14:47

Before it was 22k.

14:49

20 17,000.

14:51

And how much does a license cost if you

14:52

get it from the city? I think uh 400.

14:55

And who are you paying?

14:56

The permit owner.

14:57

You’re not paying the city.

14:58

No, no, no.

14:59

You pay the permit owner $22,000 just so

15:02

you can sell this food.

15:03

Yes.

15:04

And who is this?

15:05

A random guy.

15:06

Have you ever applied for a permit?

15:08

Yeah. I uh I applied and uh no come

15:11

anything.

15:11

It’s long wait. I’m number 3,800

15:15

something. And

15:16

after 2 years, you’re number 3,800.

15:18

Yes.

15:20

These are the four bills that are

15:21

sitting in the city council. right now,

15:24

which would give these vendors their own

15:25

permits and make your halal more

15:27

affordable. But Eric Adams hasn’t said a

15:29

single word about them. If you own the

15:31

permit, then how much would you charge

15:33

for the plate?

15:34

$7. $8.

15:35

$8.

15:36

Would you rather pay $10 for a plate of

15:38

halal or $8?

15:39

$8.

15:40

$8.

15:40

I think $8 the way to go.

15:42

If I was the mayor, I’d be working with

15:44

city council from day one to make halal

15:46

eight bucks again.

15:47

Oh, how would it taste?

15:48

Tastes like 10 bucks, but it should be

15:50

eight.

15:53

You know, I mean, there’s I would almost

15:55

describe that as libertarian. It’s kind

15:57

of a grievance about the suffocating

16:01

nature of

16:03

utterly inefficient and pointless

16:06

uh city government uh bureaucracy, the

16:09

need to wait four years to get a vendor

16:11

license and in the process have to pay

16:12

exorbitant fees that in turn resulted an

16:15

increase of price for the kind of food

16:17

that workingass people eat. and all

16:19

explains why New York City is so

16:21

expensive and offers very practical

16:23

solutions. You know, one of the reasons

16:24

I always said that it was impossible.

16:26

Let’s go back to Obama just to make it

16:28

kind of less partisan. But one of the

16:30

reasons why it was so difficult to

16:32

demonize Barack Obama is because people

16:33

would watch him with his own with their

16:35

own eyes and ears and and brains. And he

16:37

seemed to them, no matter what was being

16:39

said about him, like the opposite of

16:42

some threatening radical. And so it’s

16:44

very difficult to maintain this

16:47

demonization of somebody who doesn’t

16:49

really seem scary to most people unlike

16:52

with say Hillary Clinton where the

16:54

attacks on her about being corrupt and

16:57

kind of just hungry and thirsty for for

17:00

power and ambition in a way that would

17:01

make her do anything that did seem to

17:03

resonate with how people perceive her.

17:05

That’s the difference between a good

17:06

politician and a bad one. And one of the

17:09

reasons why it was so hard to demonize

17:10

Trump as Hitler,

17:12

as a dictator, whatever else Democrats

17:15

were trying to depict him as is because

17:17

people have seen Trump for for years,

17:19

even before he was in politics, and that

17:21

has never been their experience of him.

17:24

Doesn’t even mean that that perception

17:26

is is right. People can be very evil and

17:30

and create a a uh facade of someone

17:33

unlikable. But if someone is likable,

17:36

you cannot demonize them unless it

17:37

corresponds to how they’re perceived.

17:39

Anyone who watched all of that, so I’m

17:42

going around and talking to

17:45

food vendors about the difficulties of

17:47

government inefficiency and very

17:49

detailed ways, seemingly trivial ways,

17:51

but that are important to working- class

17:53

people. You think they were gonna listen

17:55

to histrionic claims from Zionist groups

17:59

that he’s some sort of jihadist ready to

18:02

murder Jews on the street, ready to send

18:05

gunmen into synagogues and gun everybody

18:07

down and to put women into burkas.

18:10

There’s a gigantic cognitive dissonance

18:13

between who he clearly is and how he’s

18:15

perceived on the one hand and the

18:18

attempt to demonize him on the other.

18:20

That’s why it failed so so astoundingly.

18:25

Now, it doesn’t mean that uh

18:29

those attempts weren’t made right up

18:31

until the end and continue to be made.

18:34

There’s obviously a huge panic about the

18:37

fact that he just won an election both

18:39

in the Democratic party and the

18:40

Republican party despite breaking so

18:43

many of the rules that they had assumed

18:44

were unbreakable. Beginning with the

18:46

fact that he’s an unapologetic critic of

18:48

Israel,

18:50

he promised during the campaign multiple

18:52

times to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he

18:54

came to New York. To say that that

18:57

position had always been unthinkable for

19:01

somebody who wanted to win cityride race

19:03

in New York City is to wildly understate

19:05

the case.

19:07

And this is all part and parcel of so

19:09

many other things that we’ve been over

19:10

so many times showing the unraveling of

19:13

not just support for Israel, but the

19:15

entire propagandistic understanding that

19:18

has been fed to Americans about foreign

19:19

policy and what our role in the world

19:21

should be that it’s just fueling the

19:23

panic even more.

19:25

But when things are driven by panic,

19:27

they become less effective because

19:28

they’re not based in rationality.

19:30

They’re just based in this frantic

19:31

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19:35

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