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Last week, the Mayor of New York City — a self-declared democratic socialist — sat down with Jon Stewart and delivered sixty minutes of the most carefully packaged pitch for socialist governance I have ever seen on mainstream American media. No shouting. No revolutionary slogans. Potholes. Childcare. Dignity. If you think this doesn’t affect you because New York City is just New York City — understand this: what Mamdani is building is explicitly designed to be a national model. It is coming to your city next. So I’m going to break down his arguments and equip you with everything you need to not just defeat them, but to do so in such a way that robs him of the moral legitimacy that he is trying to steal.

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00:00:00 – The three lies socialists always tell

00:06:49 – Who really made NYC childcare unaffordable?

00:12:35 – Fact-check: rent control and the true cost of "$60 million for tenants"

00:17:22 – The non-answer: what democratic socialism actually is

00:24:43 – Why the socialist utopia never arrives

00:28:43 – How they really seize control: rent freezes and government grocery stores

00:35:14 – The library lie: dressing up socialism as public goods

00:40:51 – FDR, Mussolini, and socialist vs fascist economics

00:43:07 – The dependency trap and Hayek's road to serfdom

00:46:24 – The real definition, suspended elections, and Venezuela's collapse

00:50:08 – No solutions, only tradeoffs: who hollowed out New York

00:55:37 – The three lies, recapped