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Urbanist: Mamdani’s Main Victims
Zohran Mamdani’s “agenda would disproportionately affect middle-class and poorer New Yorkers,” warns City Journal’s Nicole Gelinas.
His rent freeze will slam building maintenance and push owners to leave “vacant units indefinitely empty rather than leasing them to new tenants at a loss” — and risks “an equally radical reaction,” as “the increasingly conservative Supreme Court may see an indefinite rent freeze by mayoral whim” as reason to strike down the rent laws entirely.
Making buses free “could set off a cascade of revenue loss” for the MTA, as subway riders demand equal treatment and “suburban rail commuters, too, who pay far higher prices than subway and bus riders to commute.”
He aims to move “many police duties, including approaching people who appear to be disturbed on subways and streets, to a new civilian corps of mental-health and homeless-outreach workers.”
Sorry: Without police backup, civilians will “avoid interacting with people who appear severely agitated — the people most in need of help.”
From the right: Trans Demands Warp Reality
The “growing list of examples” of how “trans ideology” is warping “justice and fairness” includes the “remarkable leniency” of a mere eight-year prison term for aspiring “transwoman” Nicholas Roske, the would-be Brett Kavanaugh assassin, frets Commentary’s Christine Rosen.
“Trans activists” have not sought “to persuade most Americans that their cause is either rational or just,” but have “increasingly been demanding not simply equal treatment, but special treatment.”
Groups like the ACLU “made acceptance of trans ideology the new litmus test for inclusion,” and “Democratic politicians” and “mainstream media outlets” resolutely “insist on conforming.”
The “dangerous fantasies” of trans folks and advocates can become “catastrophic realities” for the rest of us.
Conservative: Bessent’s Big Bet on Argentina
“Free marketeers have good reason to cheer, or at least sigh with relief, with [President Javier] Milei’s party doing well in the Argentinian midterm elections,” notes National Review’s Jim Geraghty.
The “Trump administration traded $20 billion in U.S. dollars for the equivalent amount in Argentinian pesos” this month, a metaphorical bet” by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent “that Milei’s party would do well in the midterms, and keep the country on a smaller-government, more free-market-oriented path.”
Milei’s Freedom Advances party more than doubled its representation in Congress, prompting a rally of the Argentinian peso; “Secretary Bessent, collect your winnings.”
DC watch: ‘Strong’ Case vs. ex-CIA Boss
In a criminal referral to the Justice Department, Republicans allege ex-CIA head John Brennan lied to congressional investigators about “the Russian collusion matter” — and their case is “strong,” declares the Washington Examiner’s Byron York.
In testimony in 2017 and ’23, Brennan claimed the bogus anti-Trump Steele dossier that originated with the Hillary Clinton campaign wasn’t a basis for the Intelligence Community Assessment on the matter and that he’d opposed any reference to it in the report.
Yet newly declassified documents show “Brennan actually forced CIA analysts to use it,” overruling analysts who sought to leave it out. Thus: “The FBI and CIA both knew the dossier was BS,” but “included it anyway.”
“And then, under oath before Congress, John Brennan lied about it.”
Pollsters: Dems Must Hold Center To Win
“If Democrats want any shot at winning the White House in 2028 or beyond, they must follow the moderates in the political middle lane,” explain Douglas Schoen & Carly Cooperman at The Hill.
The fact is “centrist candidates” who court “swing voters tend to do better than those who only appeal to the most ideological parts of their base.”
Last year, “all 17 Democrats who won races in states or districts that went for President Trump” courted centrist voters by “moving to the middle on issues like immigration, crime, and social issues.”
Dems must seize “the center on the issues people care about — the economy, immigration and safety,” and so win back “the working class voters Democrats need in order to win a national election.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board