Free stuff: That’s essentially the topline argument for socialist policies.
In all fairness, it’s a pretty good one.
Who doesn’t like freebies?
Free food.
Free drinks.
Free gifts while supplies last.
Even grandma pockets the free Sweet’N Lows at the diner.
Zohran Mandani is well aware of this inherent human trait, and he’s focused a fair amount of his campaign on promising gifts to the masses.
The bread-and-circuses approach has placed him solidly in the lead, with promises of free day care, free buses, free legal advice for illegal migrants and more.
This week, he launched an online “savings calculator” that claims to tally how much you’ll personally gain in Mayor Mamdani’s utopia (in exchange, of course, for adding your name and email to his campaign mailing list).
But as the