Even the Gray Lady is raising her eyebrows at New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s political two-step.
The New York Times’ Lulu Garcia-Navarro went so far as to accuse Mamdani of deflecting as she pressed him for a definition of the “working class” he professes to champion during a recent sit-down.
At first pass, Mamdani’s working class included all who “work to pay” their bills.
When Garcia-Navarro asked if that included “someone making $250,000 a year,” the mayor affirmed that it did, before ultimately drawing his line “at about a million dollars a year.”
Read more at https://nypost.com/2026/07/20/opinion/mamdanis-working-class-costume-is-falling-apart/
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