In a long life I have met a lot of New Yorkers and believe I have known exactly one New Yorker I liked. He was a mixed bag but on balance a good guy - a former RC priest, married to an ex-nun.
All of this by way of saying Nu Yawk isn't my favorite city. So when I read in the New York Post that it looks like socialist Zohran Mamdani may win the mayors race this fall you can imagine what I thought.
I thought it's a match made in heaven. They deserve each other. His election will be almost perfect karma, he will facilitate the city's richly deserved decay and disintegration. Best of all, icky New Yorkers will have brought it on themselves.
