New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has chalked up more notable victories.

His candidates won three crucial Democratic primaries -- candidates who are supporters of the Democratic Socialists of America, as is Mamdani -- defeating three Democratic Party establishment candidates, two of whom are sitting members of Congress.

Discussing with ABC's Jonathan Karl, Mamdani's eyes twinkle; he is calm, controlled and articulate. I think of Sade's song "Smooth Operator." AI tells us that smooth operator is "the charmer, the masterful strategist, the manipulator (deceiver)."

He speaks half-truths and distortions with heartfelt sincerity that seduces his ill-informed prey.

Mamdani wants to transform our free nation under God into a socialist country and still call it America. He wants to eliminate Israel as a Jewish state and still call it Israel.

"What makes me proudest to be an American," he says," is the belief that equal rights are at the bedrock of our notion of what it means to be an American."

Of course, for Mr. Smooth Operator, he decides what those rights are.........

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