I like to talk about the dream house of Zoran Mondami.

He was a successful democratic socialist candidate in the first round of the recent New York mayoral elections.

What's funny about Mondami is almost everything he says is a contradiction or not true.

He says he's not a communist. Okay, he's a democratic socialist. He says that the key

to any socialist revolution is to seize or get the means of production. That's right out of

Marx's Das Kapital. So he's quoting communist dogma as a mechanism to gain political power.

He said he was going to go after affluent and whiter areas of New York.

He has been a child of privilege.

So most of his message is incoherent.

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal.

I'd like to talk about the dream house of Zoran Mondami.

He was a successful democratic socialist candidate in the first round of the recent New York mayorial elections. He was a beneficiary of two phenomena that might suggest he has a 50-50 chance, more or less, to win the general election.

Number one, in the primaries, it's ranked voting, and people can vote for various candidates.

And traditionally traditionally that means

in that cumbersome process that outliers are minority candidates, minority in the sense

that they're not a member of either of the major parties have an advantage. And number two,

while he was very preeminent as the hard left favorite, the conservative side split the vote between former governor Cuomo, Mr. Silwa, who's a perennial candidate, and of course, the incumbent mayor, Eric Adams.

So we're looking at the general election. But

what's funny about Mondami is almost everything he says is a contradiction or not true. Now that

he is the frontrunner, everybody is going back over his record and asking him questions. did you say you want to defund the police?

Once the police were refunded under Eric Adams, the crime rate has gone down. And he said,

no, I didn't say that. And then it's become an internet phenomenon listing all the times he did say

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