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Mamdani is interesting. Shows a kind of Deng potential. To be clear, he’ll use leftism to tax and harass his tribal enemies till they leave town. The Curley Effect. But once he’s consolidated power for life, he could ally with Chinese communism to bring a stern order to New York City. Similar to Mark Carney’s emerging playbook in Canada. Ultimately he’s a pragmatic and ruthless statist, not an anarchist. Mamdani is far less ideological than the typical woke. He’s an accomplished actor (literally) who can emote on demand and then return to sobriety once the cameras stop rolling. Due to his identity, he has so much clout within his party that — like Trump — he can reshape it. He can even meet with Trump, without consequence, something that more insecure blues simply couldn’t do. Just like Mark Carney is several standard deviations smarter than Justin Trudeau, Mamdani is far smarter than his predecessor’s predecessor De Blasio. Neither Carney nor Mamdani are the naive anarchistic wokes who actually believe the slogans. Sure, they do both define themselves as “not MAGA”, but MAGA itself contains so many contradictory tendencies that both Carney and Mamdani could embrace a harsh Chinese abundance communism — a synthesis of abundance liberalism, symbolic anti-MAGA “communism”, and MAGA’s own desire for law-and-order — which would legitimize itself by an anti-MAGA blue nationalism, but which would otherwise be devoid of ideological content. After all, “ICE out” means “reds out.” It’s a kind of blue nationalism that still endorses the idea of borders and deportations; it just says that blues want to deport *reds* from their territory, and implement their own immigration policies instead of having MAGAs implement them. And NYC and Canada do have the port access to run their own economies independently of DC, and have done so before in history. Anyway, it’s possible that Mamdani one day holds up a hand, cuts off the NGO grift, and makes the crime stop…but only after he’s secured total control of the city, by “taxing the rich” and driving out every last donor who might conceivably oppose him. And, possibly, by securing a new flow of funds to NYC from Xi rather than DC.