In July, the right-wing Claremont Institute hosted Vice-President J.D. Vance at its annual Statesmanship Award dinner, where he proceeded to tell his audience that all their fears were coming true. The left was on the move. New York City mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani and his supporters “hate the people in this room, they hate the president of the United States, and most of all, they hate the people who voted for him,” Vance said . He offered no proof, but he didn’t have to; it wasn’t the sort of crowd that needed it. They’d come to hear red-meat oratory, and he delivered. Mamdani was “ungrateful” to the land and to the people who settled it, Vance said. Because Mamdani called our great nation “contradictory” and “unfinished” even as he praised its beauty, he tarnished it and those

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