Leftists Need to Stop Getting Hung up on $3
Zohran Mamdani’s plan for free New York City buses gets a surprising amount of attention; it is, after all, a plan about busses that most people will never ride in a city that many people consider to be Sodom-with-worse-trash-collection anyway. But the obvious reason why Mamdani’s plan gets debated is because it’s a proxy for lefty/socialist ideas, generally. We’re debating bus fares because a city with a bigger GDP than Switzerland might soon be run by a guy whose economic worldview seems to be to just point to stuff and say “that should be free.”
Progressives Declare San Francisco Unworthy of Progressivism
Progressives suffered a major setback in San Francisco — of all places — on Tuesday. Voters there passed several propositions deemed non-progressive, including ones to strengthen the police, require drug screening for welfare recipients, and teach algebra in 8th grade (because algebra had been deemed racist — more on that later). In response,
