Ana Kasparian

And Ratner deserves the scorn that he's dealing with now, especially with all those photos coming out in the Epstein files.

Real hard.

Okay, let me just say, Zoran Mamdani, I mean, look, he's charismatic.

He's obviously a leader, someone who's willing to think outside the box.

We'll see how his policies impact the city.

But aside from that, what I love about him, and we covered this on the show on The Young Turks just last week,

He was asked during a press conference, do you agree with continuing to divest the pensions from the state of Israel?

And he's like, yeah, yeah, I agree.

We're going to continue doing that.

No apologies.

No further elaboration.

It's unnecessary.

No, this is what we're doing, and we're going to move on now.

And I just really adore that level of strength.

Yes, yes.

But more importantly, OK, just bear with me as I explain this.

And I just want people to understand I am not coming from a bad place.

I'm just trying to explain why in the last general election, if you look at various blue districts, higher and higher percentages of people who are lifelong Democrats ended up flipping sides and voting Republican.

This is why.

On a local level, what people experience really does matter, right?