When Zoharan Mamdani won the Mayorl Democratic Primary of New York City, a friend whose political decision I honored, he told me that this is the biggest gift for Republican. New York Times columnist as Brett Stephens saw Among the young and enthusiastic supporters of Mamdani, “They are making the case of Donald Trump better about the Democratic Party’s much -radical direction, which he could ever do.”
Mamdani, a socialist and a Muslim immigrant of Uganda of Indian heritage captured the imagination of new voters who bought about their subject to make the city cheap.
The perception of a political gift is that the Republican Democrats will tords Mamdani with progressive ideas: free bus rides, food at low prices, frozen fare-all items-all items can get sick to give cache-stapped cities.
And then there is an allegation of antisemiamitism. Running into the city with the largest Jewish community in the world, Mammadani refused to repeat the anti-Jeioni Shiboleth even after winning the primary-“Intipada global”. Intifada is Arabic for “away from shaking” and is a word that is associated with the killing of Israel and innocent Jews worldwide. We have to wait for the general election in November, to see if Mammadani has committed political suicide by refusing to condemn the global Intipada.
Meanwhile, the Senate passed the bill after President Trump passed the “big beautiful” and sent it back to the house for obeisance, another friend told me that this Sen was making Burney Sanders (I-VT), which was about GOP’s much more reactionary direction, “he could ever be better.”
Could it be that two political programs are actually “gifts” for rival party?
Mamdani and Trump political programs are similar to such an extent that both cities and nation want to make them great again, but neither can really take their bold initiatives. Mamdani’s program offers an ambitious populist agenda for which New York City cannot pay, and the Maga Bill offers an ambitious reactionary agenda for which the nation cannot pay. The programs are dissatisfied to the extent that Mamdani is expected to finance his program on the rich’s back, and Trump hoped to finance his program on the back of the poor.
Republicans have always been advocates of fiscal discipline of a balanced budget with an eye on stopping a debt crisis. What has happened to them? The new law has increased the national debt of nearly four trillion dollars over the years, amidst the most expensive bills in the years – not on its merit in the Congress, but because Republican Fiscal Hawks had the dare to stand for its President. Although many House Republicans Who claimed They were pressurized to vote for the bill that they would oppose the measures of the Senate-Pasa, that version barely passed the House, 218 to 214,
The law would expand the tax deduction from Trump’s first term that was determined to end, while adding new tax breaks and spending hundreds of billions on immigration enforcement and army. The bill will be approximately $ 170 billion in the bill, one of the largest amount spent on homeland security, and additional $ 160 billion will flow into the Defense Department to fund the border and immigration cracks of the Trump administration, partially for Trump’s proposed “Golden Dome” continental missile defense system.
The major benefits of the bill are unevenly for the rich, the social security for the poor is paid for large measures by reducing purified programs, such as food tickets and medicade payments. About 12 million Americans Are estimated To lose health care coverage under law. Medicade cuts will also affect hospitals across the country, whose revenue depends a lot on the program.
Mamdani is hardly a gift for Republican. A lover Democratic candidate can easily “shake” the extreme ideas of Mamdani and take his party to the center-left, where it can be marketing across the country. Mamdani can decide to dial some of your strange ideas back before the election day.
I am not sure that the Democrats are also true for the Republican gift. “Big Beautiful” law can be the worst bill in history. Such a large redistribution of money has never been directed upwards. It comes at the time of proximity of income and wealth. Come midnarms, the Republican aggressive anti-migration policies will be trapped in the social security trap with your bill poking holes to fuel.
The new law added gasoline to the fire of 143 executive orders of Trump in the first 100 days – more than any other president in the same period – including – including Hardcore immigration restriction A rollback of major environmental protection, Extended tariff on foreign goods And a rift on law firms and universities. The orders have strongly criticized civil rights and pro -democracy groups, environmental advocates and even some business leaders.
The immigration crack of Trump has become a traces. Only 8 percent Those detained by snow were first convicted of violent crimes.
Trump visited his political enemies for vengeance. He Where is He wants Mamdani, who became an American citizen in 2018, was removed and deported.
Trump threatened to arrest me, snatched my citizenship, put it in a detention camp and deported, “Mamdani Forced responded“Not because I have broken any law, but because I will refuse to terrorize our city.”
This does not require an option between Mamdani and Trump. Both have foolish views. In the “Hamlet”, Ophelia saw that “rich gift wax poor when divers prove to be ruthless.” Voters can actually see their platforms as a plague in both their homes.
James d. Zirin, writer and legal analyst, is a former federal prosecutor in the southern district of New York. He is also the host of Public Television Talk Show and Podcast Conversation with gym zirin,
