Zohran Mamdani lectures successful people on wealth creation with all the confidence of a man who has never created any.

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"Someday, we will talk about how the Democrats’ true superpower is breaking things — cities, institutions, even entire countries."

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"If you want to wreck things in a spectacularly absurd way, just put Zohran Mamdani in charge. He has now launched a campaign against the rich that essentially treats them as suspects in every imaginable crime simply for being wealthy. His attacks on Ken Griffin are a good example. The CEO of Citadel is a billionaire whose professional achievements are recognized worldwide. What can we say about Mamdani? He’s a politician. Nothing more. Even in his only known line of work, he devoted himself entirely to politics until he realized he could dedicate himself fully to politics without working at all. He has never earned a cent on his own, nor created jobs for anyone outside politics — which is itself a rather parasitic way of providing employment. Today, he is simply a mayor who should never have become one. Perhaps someone should remind him that he is not Napoleon or anything of the sort. I’m afraid he is in no position to lecture Griffin about much of anything. (RELATED: Billionaires to California’s Rescue)   

"Last week, I was highly critical here of the newly rich who become idiots, as if burdened by guilt, turning into half-woke, half-green caricatures. But my criticism has nothing to do with the mayor’s. Mamdani wants wealth itself to become suspect; suspect of corruption. He wants us to hate the rich. And he wants to patch the holes created by his own mismanagement by taking money from millionaires. In other words, he wants to force the rich to finance his incompetence. That is the exact opposite of what one expects from one of the most important cities in the world, a city that ought to stand as an example of freedom and prosperity rather than an economic black hole where the people who have achieved the most in life are forced to bankroll the festivities of the dumbest kind of political parasitism. 

"As a Spaniard, one of the things I most admire about the United States is its culture of meritocracy. That is how great, prosperous, and free nations are built. Meritocracy means that if you work hard, are intelligent, have a bit of luck, and make the most of your talents, you will attain a far more comfortable position in life while also helping to make the world a better place and improving the lives and opportunities of many others. Only a fool would try to crush those elites who have earned their wealth through hard work. A fool… or Mamdani." . . .

. . . "I find it difficult to take Mamdani seriously. His style of politics embodies everything I detest. I suspect he is the least qualified person imaginable for the office he holds. It is like Wile E. Coyote trying to teach the Road Runner a lesson in road safety." . . .