Forgive us for finding real comedy in how Zohran Mamdani’s rise is making the Democratic establishment squirm.
Onetime “New Democrat” Bill Clinton, who won the White House by breaking with the party’s left, now has had to lead the parade of folks congratulating Mamdani on winning the Democratic primary — without actually endorsing him.
Oh, and there’s Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand popping up the other week to insist Mamdani denounce the phrase “globalize the intifada” — only to soon feel compelled to turn tail and apologize to him for saying in a radio interview that the anti-Zionist supports “global jihad” and Hamas.
Added irony: Mamdani’s excuse for being OK with others’ use of “globalize the intifada” is that he doesn’t want to be the “word police” — yet somehow it’s fine for his supporters to police Gillibrand’s use of “jihad”?
Meanwhile, a spokesman for Sen. Chuck Schumer told Jewish Insider,