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> Pragmatism without principles is still no principles. Mamdani has principles

Ex ante versus ex post facto.

New Yorkers aren’t idiots who vote in pie in the sky absolutist lunatics. I’m hopeful Mamdani can show new ideas are electable, even if his particular pitch is finely tuned to the deep blue.





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