Right here’s one Zohran Mamdani transfer we will cheer: The mayor-elect has apparently kicked Brad Lander to the curb.
Some will see this as ingratitude: After speeding to ally with Mamdani within the Democratic major, the about-to-be-ex-city comptroller zealously thumped for him these previous couple of months — primarily serving as Workforce Zohran’s “home Jew,” pulling out all of the stops to color the antisemitic socialist as kosher.
Lander had been notoriously angling for some prime administration put up, however per CNN he’s “out of the image,” maybe as a result of (by some accounts) he’d been bragging about operating Metropolis Corridor if Mamdani received.
That definitely appears like Lander, who’s lots better-known for his vanity and ambition than for something resembling a precept.
So, whereas nobody will mistake us for Mamdani followers, we’re glad to see the mayor-elect exhibiting some good sense right here.
It’d be one other matter if Lander received pushed out as a result of the far-lefties feared he would possibly reasonable Mamdani, however Lander by no means met a radical trigger he couldn’t embrace.
He’s made a idiot of himself together with his theatrics — together with getting himself arrested — in protest of Workforce Trump’s completely authorized ICE raids.
Most despicably, for all his claims to be a “proud Jew” who helps Israel, he couldn’t even deliver himself to unequivocally condemn the Democratic Socialists of America’s anti-Israel, pro-Hamas rally the day after the Oct. 7, 2023, bloodbath.
The rally was “abominable,” he admitted, however he additionally reiterated his name for “an finish to the [Israeli] Occupation.” (Word: No Israeli had been in Gaza since 2005.)
CNN additionally reviews that Mamdani thought Lander wasn’t “notably efficient as comptroller.”
We’d completely agree, albeit possible for reverse causes.
Regardless of the case, Mamdani’s made one sensible transfer.
Too unhealthy that Lander is probably going the final lefty he’ll reject.
