SHAPIRO: New York City mayoral hopeful the worst of Generation Z
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How does a 33-year-old lifelong do-nothing — a person who has never held a real job, never suffered a true challenge and been handed everything on a silver platter — turn into a mayoral frontrunner in New York City? How does a self-described socialist who despises capitalism become the leading candidate for the mayoralty of the world’s financial capital? How does a man who nods at “globalize the intifada” and refuses to say Hamas should disarm — all while complaining that the real victim of 9/11 was a distant relative who was allegedly given an ugly stare by a fellow subway rider — become the most likely next mayor of the city in which 9/11 occurred?
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