It was hard to process what I was seeing when the second plane hit the South Tower. Fear. Confusion. Fires still burned at Ground Zero in the days that followed.

Through that haze walked then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani — covered in dust, steady, present. He wasn’t hiding behind podiums; he was in the streets, looking people in the eye. On September 10, he was the mayor of New York City. On September 11, he became the mayor for all of us.

That was real leadership. A month after the attacks, Giuliani said, “This is not a clash of civilizations. It’s a conflict between murderers and humanity … The only acceptable result is the complete and total eradication of terrorism.”

More than twenty years later, we have politicians like Zohran Mamdani who confuse performance for principle and weakness for wisdom. The man who couldn’t bench press 135 pounds now wants to lift an entire city — by tearing down the very foundation that holds it together.

Mamdani’s campaign isn’t really about free buses. It’s about division. Mamdani made a deliberate choice — not once, but twice — to minimize some of the darkest times in the city’s history so he could virtue signal to his progressive brethren.

Earlier this month, Mamdani posted smiling photos from Masjid At-Taqwa in Brooklyn, celebrating “the pleasure of meeting........

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