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This new age will be defined by a competence and a compassion that have too long been placed at odds with one another.

We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.

That's an excerpt from New York City Mayor-elect Zoran Mondani's victory speech last night.

Many heard in that echoes of a kind of soft totalitarianism, a government that is into every detail of the citizens' lives. I guess that has

yet to be proven, but we'll see over the course of the next four years. Welcome back to

issues, et cetera. I'm Todd Wilkin. Joining us to talk about the election of a Muslim mayor in New York

City and a Muslim lieutenant governor of Virginia, Robert Spencer, he's director of Jihad

Watch. He's author of several books, including his latest Intifada on the Hudson, the selling

of Zoran Mamdani. Robert, welcome back. Thanks, Todd. Good to talk to you again. How do you explain

progressives' concerns over what many call Christian nationalism and at at the same time, their support for Muslim

political candidates? In the first place, it has to be remembered that so-called progressives

hate Christianity and love Islam. And this is because they associate Islam with being

non-white, non-Western, and non-American and non-Christian.

And in their animus against Christianity, they think that makes Islam just great.

They have also been lied to and have lied to themselves and to each other for 25 years, I'm counting,

and they have said that Islam is a religion of peace

that has nothing to do with terrorism and has no political aspect or any aspect that would

contradict American society and laws. And so they see Muslim political officials, Muslim candidates and victorious

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