DISPATCHES FROM THE OCCUPIED ZONES: Mamdani and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week (and It’s Only Wednesday).

It started so innocently, as these things do, with New York City’s young socialist mayor demanding nonsensical NYPD coverage for his activist wife’s ego-trip to Syria and Lebanon later this month. By the time the week was over, Zohran Mamdani’s rent control scheme was a shambles, his signature pied-à-terre tax was on judicial hold, and Florida was mocking him as its “Economic Developer of the Year” on a Times Square digital billboard.

Oh, wait — it’s only Wednesday.

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