New York City is about to elect a Democratic socialist as mayor.

What could go wrong?

How worried should we be?

Welcome to the Reason Roundtable.

I'm your host, Peter Souterman.

This is your Libertarian review of news and culture from

the editors at Reason Magazine. Today, I am joined by my colleagues Matt Welch, Catherine Mangu Ward,

and Nick Gillespie. Happy Monday. Happy Election Week. All right, New York City, Capital of Global

Finance, about to elect social media socialist from Mayor Zoran Mamdani.

He wants to freeze the rent. He wants to start government-run grocery stores. He wants to make

buses free and provide free child care for every New York child starting at six weeks old.

Like I said, what could go wrong? So let's all just give our worst case scenarios,

but also our best. Nick, you have written about Zord Mammdani and what to expect from his

likely tenure as mayor here. Let's start with you. I think the best case scenarios that he wins with

a plurality of the vote and is mostly

blocked from doing what he's doing by the idiots in Albany, who are also terrible.

The best case scenario.

This is like a Mr. Burns situation where all the diseases cancel each other out.

Yeah.

And I guess that was the best case scenario.

The worst case scenario is that he gets elected in a giant landslide and does everything

he campaigned upon, including globalizing the Intifada, which I'm not sure what that would mean,

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