Corey Robin at his own website:
Zohran Mamdani is running now against Andrew Cuomo, a corrupt sexual harasser, who has been aided from the start by Donald Trump. Donald Trump is a corrupt sexual harasser who never met a law he didn’t want to break. Through pressure from Trump and Billy Ackman and a combination of real estate developers, financiers, pro-Israel forces, Cuomo is now being helped by the stepping down of Eric Adams, another corrupt politician whose bacon was saved only when Trump forced lower-tier federal prosecutors to drop the government’s corruption case against Adams in return for Adams’ helping Trump pursue his illegal and unconstitutional plan to deport immigrants.
Notice what Zohran, already blessed with so many political gifts, has going for him here. Not only is he completely untainted by corruption. He’s never broken the law. He’s as clean as a whistle.
There was a time when that wouldn’t have been remarkable. We’ve reached a moment in our political development when it is. What’s more, that steadfast legality and sense of lawfulness belongs to a democratic socialist, a critic of Israel, a man who wants to freeze the rent, make buses free and fast, childcare universal, and life in New York affordable.
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