Because few documents give us a more coherent or compelling peek into the mind of the man who now governs America\u2019s largest city.<\/p>\n
Leaning over a desk as big as his ego, the mayor wasted no time before getting to the point.<\/p>\n
\u201cBenjamin Netanyahu,\u201d he thundered, looking less like a serious elected official and more like an actor auditioning for the role of an assistant district attorney on \u201cLaw & Order,\u201d \u201cis a war criminal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Why bother with saying so when there\u2019s nothing the mayor can do about it?<\/p>\n
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Preening about war and suffering, while making no real effort to help bring about a resolution, is paying off big for very-online leftists like childrens\u2019 YouTuber Ms. Rachel and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n
And, more poignantly, why should the mayor of a large and demanding American city spend so much time and city resources fretting about a conflict unfurling thousands of miles away?<\/p>\n
The answer to both questions is the same, and it\u2019s one that\u2019s probably obvious to any 12-year-old with an iPhone: He\u2019s doing it for the clicks.<\/p>\n
Sure, the mayor is genuinely no fan of the Jews; he and his wife have been obsessively demonizing the Jewish state<\/a> for years while cheering on those meek humanitarians over at Hamas.<\/p>\n But, as Tuesday\u2019s video makes all too clear, the mayor\u2019s own biases are a sideshow, not the main attraction.<\/p>\n At heart, he\u2019s a theater kid starved for attention \u2014 and he knows that nothing gets his base more riled up than squawking about death, war and suffering: the video received 2.3 million views the day Mamdani posted it on YouTube.<\/p>\n It\u2019s politics as imagined by a narcissistic, solipsistic, dim millennial whose privileged upbringing featured so little by way of real-world experience that he felt compelled to find purpose elsewhere.<\/p>\n And he found it, like all too many members of his screen-addled generation, in the cheap and meaningless validation that comes with chasing clicks and likes online.<\/p>\n He is hardly alone in this scam.<\/p>\n The mayor\u2019s bestie, the online toddler influencer known as Ms. Rachel, recently took a sharp turn into politics<\/a>, posting less about the ABCs and more about \u201cPalestine\u201d \u2014 and amassing a fortune along the way.<\/p>\n The numbers tell the story.<\/p>\n In 2023, before Hamas\u2019 marauders crossed into Israel to behead babies<\/a>, rape teenage girls and kidnap hundreds of innocent civilians, Ms. Rachel enjoyed a sizable but solid audience of about 5 million viewers.<\/p>\n