Nothing grinds my gears worse than some hot-taking Canadian pundit insisting that this week’s hip fresh new political chaos abroad can’t happen here. Inevitably, the person writing doesn’t understand the chaos in question, and assumes that they, and all of Canada, are too smart to fall for whatever the rabble are going mad for. Fortunately, I don’t need to write columns to reassure myself of my own seriousness (because I have none). Therefore let me say frankly that for once, Canadian Jews can calm down and put their plans to decamp permanently for Florida on hold because there will be no Canadian Zohran Mamdanis.

In case you haven’t heard, let me fill you in: Mamdani, a one-term NYC Assemblyman and proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America who’s on the record as saying he wants to globalize the intifada, won a primary and is the Democratic nominee to become the next Mayor of Gotham. I could mention that he still has to win the actual election in November, but why bother? Some reading this will have panicked as soon as they read the words “globalize the intifada” and “won” in the same sentence. Immediately afterwards came the public crashouts and freakouts over Mamdani’s win that our enemies live for, reinforcing the perception that we Jews are a bunch of bagel-brunching softies who rely on establishment gargoyles to fight our........

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