The progressive liberal democratic coalition in the US has turned into a psychotic suicidal movement hellbent on sinking deeper and deeper into their already neck deep sunken cost fallacy which passes for progressive politics.

The problem is not Mamdani but what he expresses.

Good luck with that.

The Londonification of New York has officially commenced.
I don’t know about New York, but I know about London. Within 25 years & with a bizarre immigration policy, London has become unrecognizable.
Perhaps New York also deserves its deranged contrarianism that passes for “progressivism” these days.

Trump is not “an existential threat” to the Democratic coalition because the latter is way past “the threat” phase and well into the territory of “Let’s try to build this from the ground up from scratch”.
The demise of the Democratic coalition in the US is the result of self-inflicted wounds.

The post-Holocaust Liberal Consensus Era is over . The Western Liberal World has exhausted itself by “toleration” & “solidarity with the oppressed” fatigue, as there are no more coherently recognizable identifiable “oppressed”/“disadvantaged” groups to “parade”.

QED: Jew hatred

The foundation of the State of Israel is the archetypal model of decolonization every which way you want to dissect it.

QED: Anti-Zionism is a settler-colonial ideology rooted in millennia old animus towards the Jewish people.

Ayatollah regime kaput!

a tale as old as time

Trump is not “anti-establishment”.
He IS the worst part of the pre-Civil Rights era establishment in its most grotesque form.

The greatest trick this long buried part of the establishment pulled was to reappear with an “anti-establishment” makeup on.

Make America Gullible Again. MAGA 🤡

This is the guy who started the Silk Road dark website which was used the facilitate major global drug trafficking. Was serving life in prison. But when Trump wanted the Libertarian Party endorsement he promised them this. He never heard of Ulbricht. Even spelled his name wrong.

The problem with Gen Z liberal democrats in the US is that their primary concern is to induce shock and provoke society instead of organizing effectively to change it. Often they come off as politically inept and ideologically naive, exhibiting an absurd degree of imprudence.

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”

― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

This essay written in 1995 by the brilliant semiotician Umberto Eco on Fascism (Ur-Fascism) still reads as fresh as my morning coffee.

From this point onwards this essay should be part of the secular liberal cannot and a must read in all Middle and High school curricula across the world.

Trump, reflecting on the election, claims "people coming into our country from prisons and mental institutions" was the top issue

(he still doesn't know the difference between political asylum and insane asylums)

Trump saw Prosperity Gospel works
so he engineered Prosperity Politics.

He realized he needs a personal bank to bypass those pesky Emolument Clauses so he launched Trump coin with a total supply of 1 billion coins

Wanna bribe POTUS?
No problems! You can do it anonymously.

In my phone call with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, we discussed the positive momentum in EU-Armenia relations.

The only way where you will be OK with Trump's grotesque comments at fallen soldiers is when the threat of progress diminishing the available space of your racist praxis is so vast that it trumps denigrating and belittling fallen WWII heroes by the elected Commander-in-Chief.

But journalism is in fact a practice, for that matter one that intersects with creative writing in the following sense: anyone who's taken a graduate course in nonfiction writing knows one of the primary modes of nonfiction writing is "journalistic."

How can that be? Because journalism is an ethos.

So we came here to do starter packs?
OK!