New York’s socialist mayoral candidate’s ideas threaten to bring back the post-George Floyd riots surge in crime.

Of all the terrible policies 33-year-old New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has embraced over the last five years, none threaten New York City more than his ideas about the police and law and order. To a certain extent, the New York assemblyman’s socialist ramblings about economics are less threatening because New York taxing and spending policies are handled by the Assembly and they are already both extremely high.

Mamdani’s government-run grocery stores will likely just end up being a taxpayer-funded joke rather than being truly disastrous. In a sea of other, almost certainly more functional privately-run businesses, I’m guessing New Yorkers will generally avoid the government option.

Where Mamdani will have a great deal of power to do damage is with his ideas about the police. Though he’s tried to soften his position about defunding the police a bit in recent days, Mamdani has made it clear on social media over the years that he’s hostile to........

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