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Michael Goodwin: Mamdani’s socialist policies give nothing but a cold shoulder. Look no further than NYC’s new homeless hellscape

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In the most memorable and troubling line of his inaugural address, Mayor Mamdani vowed to “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”

But as temperatures approach 100 degrees, most New Yorkers would surely welcome some “frigidity” of any kind.

They are out of luck, because even the heat wave has become another excuse for the socialist mayor to unleash more of his warmth of collectivism.

The plain English translation is that he’s building a vastly bigger and strikingly more expensive government.

The evidence is that city-owned buildings are bursting with an alphabet soup of new agencies, some of which lack a clear purpose.

Because even the weather apparently has capitalist roots, the Boy Wonder’s office has been pumping out a stream of overheated promises that the Mommy State is here to help.

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Mamdani is so generous with taxpayer dollars that he will even deliver cold air to you if you don’t have it or can’t find any on your own.

During the heat wave two weeks ago, he crowed in a TV interview that “what we’re bringing for the first time in city history are a number of vans that are both providing New Yorkers in need with water, with electrolytes, with a cool place to be, as well as with transport to cooling centers.”

One thing he didn’t have then and still doesn’t is a plan for dismantling homeless shantytowns, especially the enormous one spreading over a series of blocks on the far West Side, near the Intrepid Museum.

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