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“Mamdani believes in a model of universal, cosmopolitan citizenship.” This is the key. While I am sympathetic to aspects of Zionism I will take this any day over a party with any connection to the Tucker Carlsons and JD Vances.

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Interesting. I don’t believe in universal cosmopolitan citizenship. Perhaps that’s one reason why Mamdani doesn’t resonate for me. I don’t live or vote in nyc so it doesn’t much matter to me other than to monitor for how the Democratic Party may or may not change in response to Mamdani.

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Interesting piece! Even for a non New Yorker

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sjellic2's avatar

"I haven't touched on Israel and Palestine"

The deeper you go into this wing of American discourse, the less it ever does. Not a criticism of this piece, it's just a fact that *as practiced* this is pure domestic culture war, at most gesturing at the underlying conflict.

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