“Be not afraid.”
That verse from the Bible has been on my mind since Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City.
Don’t get me wrong: I’m no Pollyanna. As a lifelong entrepreneur and part-time resident of New York City, my initial reaction to his victory was borderline terror. The socialist will undoubtedly bring America’s greatest city to its lowest point in decades, if not ever. His election night promise to “prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve” is really a promise to make all of New York’s biggest problems even worse, including the lack of affordable housing and disorder on the streets…