When the info expose the utter folly of your long-cherished prejudices, dump your “rules” — or at the least fake to: That’s Zohran Mamdani’s newest “I’ll say no matter you wish to hear” gambit within the wake of Monday’s Park Avenue bloodbath.
The Democratic mayoral nominee rushed again from his household Ugandan villa to fulfill with the widow and pop of murdered cop Didarul Islam, then introduced that he by no means actually meant all these years of “Defund the police” statements.
All of the anti-police speak was simply because he was “pissed off” over the killing of George Floyd, Mamdani says . . . now.
Plus, the hate largely got here 5 years again, earlier than he even gained his Meeting submit.
By no means thoughts that his present agenda doesn’t purpose to unravel the very actual drawback of an excessive amount of NYPD extra time by hiring extra cops, however relatively by burning $1 billion-plus on social staff who’ll supposedly decide up the burden.
So his declare that his #Defund posts at the moment are “out of step with the best way” he views police at present doesn’t even go essentially the most elementary sniff check.
What do all of the lefties who backed him within the major consider this turnaround?
Do they really feel fooled — or are they blissful winking on the apparent flim-flammery?
It’d be one factor if Mamdani have been maturing to a honest appreciation for policing and the pressing want for improved public order, however the timing of this turnaround is solely damning.
No: He simply can’t say he nonetheless desires to defund the police if he’s about to attend a hero cop’s funeral as he tries to win energy.
New York Metropolis doesn’t want a mayor who can’t make up his thoughts about whether or not having police is a good suggestion; it wants a mayor absolutely dedicated to a robust program of public security.
That’s, one who stood foursquare behind the women and men in blue earlier than a cop received killed.
