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The Editors

Episode 785: NYC's Reckless Dive

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National Review

Politics, Charles C. W. Cooke, Conservatism, Conservative, Policy, Government, News, Jim Geraghty, Rich Lowry, Michael Brendan Dougherty, Current Events, Noah Rothman, Madeleine Kearns, Society & Culture, Public Policy, National Review

4.44.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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0:00.0

New York City decides to jump off the cliff with Zoron, Mom, Donnie,

0:24.0

and the Supreme Court takes a sledgehammer to nationwide injunctions.

0:26.7

We'll discuss all this more on this edition of the editors.

0:29.7

I'm Rich Lowry, and I'm joined as always by the right, audible Charles, C.W. Cook,

0:36.4

Jackie B., Jack Butler, and the notorious M.B., D. Michael Brendan Doherty.

0:39.2

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0:47.9

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0:53.9

If you don't like what

0:54.5

you hear, please forget. I said anything. So MBD, we talked a little bit a week ago about the

1:02.6

upcoming New York City primary. We didn't make any predictions, but we at least took Mom

1:08.9

Donnie seriously because he has the hallmarks of the kind of candidate

1:13.2

that would pull off the upset that he did indeed pull off, changing the electorate,

1:19.2

getting a higher turnout among his voters, and just exciting people in a way.

1:25.2

The vanilla, been around forever, establishment candidate didn't,

1:30.0

and that was part of this formula for victory. I mean, he's just way out there on everything,

1:36.8

on economics, $30 minimum wage, government grocery stores, free bus rides, and then also on the cultural slash foreign policy

1:47.3

stuff, extremely anti-Zionist. What do you make of it? Well, it was an interesting election.

1:54.1

I mean, I think one of his underrated qualities that drove the electorate behind him was that he wanted the job so badly.

2:06.1

And, you know, like a lot of times, it is the candidate who looks like they wanted the job

2:11.6

and works for it and is sort of like chipper and eager and gets out there with as much communication as possible, that does it.

2:21.1

You know, I think Cuomo ran an entitled campaign and didn't deal with his own deficiencies.

2:30.2

Yeah. I'm also always reminded in these circumstances of the quote from someone who presumably is not one of Mom Donnie's favorite people in the world, Theodore.

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