Seems Johnson knows this. Both him and Trump will keep this shutdown going to stop the forced release of these files it seems. Don’t know what kind of plan they’re cooking up though.

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      He’s an edge case. And - don’t get me wrong - if this is a self-reproducing model for future campaigns, awesome!

      But Mamdani himself is exceptionally charismatic with good politics to back him up. I wouldn’t even say guys like him don’t exist, they just tend to prefer climbing the escalator of retail politics to the greased pole of democratic socialism.

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        One of the funny things about New York politics is that Mamdani’s predecessors called for similar things [Billionaire Bloomberg supported congestion pricing and tried to bring fresh produce to food deserts]

        Hell, NYC’s most popular Mayor ran on a “Fusion Ticket” with the Communists. Socialists, and the Republicans.