How to beat anti-Semitic socialist Muslim Zohran Mamdani in New York’s next mayoral race? It will not be easy, concludes Spencer Neale in The American Conservative, with a nationally disgraced Democratic ex-governor, an (allegedly) corrupt Democratic/Independent incumbent and perennial Republican loser Curtis Sliwa all vying for the anti-Mamdani vote. They’d better get themselves together: this is one municipal election that’s more important than the national elections of many countries.
Blueprint for Alberta?
Writing in Jewish World Review, Frederic Fransen reminds Americans of a key lesson from Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. “The colonies need to declare independence,” Fransen summarizes Paine, “because so long as their goal was seen as reconciliation, foreign governments would consider the Americans as rebels and the conflict an internal affair.” But a unilateral declaration of independence, Fransen notes, instantly converts mere complaints from an aggrieved group into a negotiation between sovereign states.
