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Mamdani’s working-class costume is falling apart

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Even the Gray Lady is raising her eyebrows at New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s political two-step.

The New York Times’ Lulu Garcia-Navarro went so far as to accuse Mamdani of deflecting as she pressed him for a definition of the “working class” he professes to champion during a recent sit-down.

At first pass, Mamdani’s working class included all who “work to pay” their bills.

When Garcia-Navarro asked if that included “someone making $250,000 a year,” the mayor affirmed that it did, before ultimately drawing his line “at about a million dollars a year.”

These are the prevarications of a man who knows where his bread is buttered.

Mamdani is a self-described socialist whose political success depends on his ability to present as a champion of the working man — the kind who clocks in early, stays late and coarsens his callouses in the interim.

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After the triumph three far-left candidates he backed in high-profile Big Apple congressional primaries last month, he heralded a supposed “shift in the balance of power........

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