Rich Lowry

Yeah, it's just it's comically bad.

Now, the ultimate problem is not her.

It's Mamdani.

These are Mamdani's views as well, although he's a good politician.

So he did as much as he possibly could to obscure them prior to the election.

But private property is not just the core individual right.

It undergirds every liberty in Western civilization.

And rent control, wherever it's been tried, has been an abject failure, including in New York.

You know, the famous phrase, ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning.

which is supposedly said during a world series excuse me broadcast uh in new york in 1977 wasn't actually said but there was a huge fire visible from the stadium and so notable that the broadcasters talked about it because all these buildings were burning because they were dilapidated or the owners didn't want them anymore because they weren't

weren't making any money off of them, and they couldn't possibly make money off of them.

So they didn't invest in them and didn't have any incentive to keep them up.

So what you do when you rent control a bunch of apartments, you ensure that their stock, their value goes steadily down.

And then meanwhile, everyone else who's not in a rent-controlled apartment has to pay even more because you've constricted the supply.

abject failure everywhere.

So on top of just these hideous, immoral views she has, she knows nothing about economics and nothing about the history of her own city.

You know what she reminds me of?

This is what people say is being done to South African farmers, right?

You get a government that is racist against white people and seeks to oppress them.

in order to supposedly make up for past injustices.