Michael Knowles

He's not even like the old school Bernie Sanders kind of socialist.

You know, he's not like that old school class warfare, Karl Marx kind of socialist or communist.

He's the kind of communist who tweets about queer liberation.

who tweets about the need for justice in Palestine or whatever as a matter of the economic order.

It's not, oh man, it's going to be bad.

I'm all for critiquing capitalism.

If it means you're going to strengthen the family, if it means you're going to maintain traditions, if it means you're going to have a cohesive society.

Yeah, get a healthy critique of capitalism.

But it's like the Anakin Skywalker meme.

I'm going to critique capitalism.

Oh, you're going to critique how it is acidic and corrosive to social institutions and the family and norms and the natural law.

It's just so Ron Anakin smiling there.

It doesn't destroy the family enough.

It doesn't liberate the queers enough.

Okay, going to be a total disaster.

But there's an irony to Mamdani's critiques of capitalism.

Namely,

He's most popular among wealthy New Yorkers and wealthy non-New Yorkers, I should say.

We'll get to that in a second.

First, I want to tell you about Leaf Filter.