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“Mamdani still thinks Trump’s a fascist, but he’ll work with him.” Yesterday, I suggested that Trump generously refraining from repeatedly plunging Zohran Mamdani’s head into the Oval Office private toilet accomplished two things: it deprived the left of the public row they desperately wanted, to turn Mamdani into the second coming of Che Guevara, and it actually damaged the diminutive socialist. Exhibit A, straight from far-left Axios, yesterday:

Madani still thinks Trump's a fascist, but he'll work with him
7 hours ago By Avery Lotz

The article —which knew exactly what it was doing— hilariously begins with this sentence: “New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said in an interview aired Sunday he still believes President Trump is a fascist and a threat to democracy, even as he pledged to work with him to deliver for New Yorkers.”

Put plainly: “The dictator is real, the danger is existential, democracy is hanging by a thread— but I’ll be sending him my budget requests by close of business.”

It’s hard to overstate how catastrophically incoherent, impotent, and silly this makes Mamdani look. Trump didn’t need to body-slam him. Trump just shook his hand and smiled, and Mamdani instantly folded his moral absolutism into a neat little origami weasel.

The left wanted a martyr. Trump gave them a collaborator, a pocket-sized Quisling, politely asking the ‘fascist threat to democracy’ permission to add a few more bike lanes.

Astonishingly, some people think this stuff happens by accident, as if Zohran Mamdani just wandered into the Oval Office, slipped on the rug, and accidentally delivered the most humiliating collaborationist handshake since Quisling tried to guess which fork to use at Hitler’s official banquet.

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