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🗓️ 3 July 2025
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New York assemblyman (and amateur rapper) Zohran Mamdani has hit upon a distilled blend of socialism, anticolonialism, and woke omnicausery to secure a Democratic primary win in New York City’s mayoral race. Does his victory signal the party's new direction after months of post-election flailing? Legal policy analyst and friend of the Institute Inez Stepman joins the hosts to discuss Mamdani’s rise and chances of victory. Then: the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Trump v. Casa doesn't end the birthright citizenship debate, but it does free up the executive from judicial overreach and could do a lot to restore constitutional order. Plus: listener feedback, fellowship insights, and Fourth of July food and reading recommendations!
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0:00.0 | coming up on this episode of the roundtable. You have a bunch of kids who are probably pretty bright. |
0:05.7 | They've been told their whole lives, you know, they're the best and the brightest. They have |
0:09.0 | very, very radical sort of liberal politics. They go to some of the best schools, Bowdoin is, |
0:13.9 | you know, one of very highly ranked schools. They graduate with an enormous amount of debt because |
0:18.3 | their parents are not the ultra rich who can pay the sticker price of 85k a year upfront. All of their peers in those schools that actually focus, |
0:26.5 | instead of focusing on radical politics, actually got, I don't know, computer science degrees or |
0:30.0 | finance degrees, right? They go in, work in Wall Street, and there's a split after college, right? |
0:36.1 | In college, the U.S. taxpayer subsidizes the same lifestyle that they had with their upper |
0:41.4 | middle class parents, more or less. |
0:42.7 | They can continue that into young adulthood. |
0:45.5 | After they graduate, and that money dries up, if they go into, for example, nonprofits |
0:49.9 | or they go into radical activism or whatever, they're making decent money compared to the |
0:54.0 | rest of the country. You know, they're making decent money compared to the rest |
0:54.2 | of the country. They're making usually 80 or 100 or $120,000 a year, but there's a huge split |
1:00.8 | between what the people on Wall Street or in the top law firms are making in New York and this |
1:05.6 | category of activist. I think that ticks them off. |
1:09.2 | They think that they deserve the lifestyle of the ultra-rich |
1:14.0 | and the people who did the bad things of going into these corporations and making a ton of money. |
1:18.9 | I don't think they have a conservative attitude towards the trade-offs of that. I think there |
1:23.5 | is an enormous amount of resentment. I think they come out with heavy debt and thinking |
1:27.6 | that they are the best and brightest and that the country owes them a really good lifestyle, |
1:32.4 | a track to power. I think Mondami is that. |
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