Evaluating Mamdani’s Political Skills and Moderation

• Don’t mess with the Zoran

• The opacity of hope

• Inspiration is overrated

• Wait, what if none of these proposals actually work…

• The return of identity politics?

• Is offline politics “additive, human, humane, and empathetic?”

• The Dem doom loop

• The online left vs. Jon Lovett vs. reality

• Purity tests, left and right

• The one thing that didn’t shock Hillary Clinton

• Harvey Milk died so you could be governor

• The right denounces its loony fringe. Sort of.

• Has the left done the same?

• Has Jon’s baggage shifted to the right on anything? Well…

• Can you be buddies with Barack?

• Is it bad to have an enormous Nazi tattoo on your chest?

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