The Wall Street Journal looked for a "pragmatic streak" in Zohran Mamdani, but concluded that the New York City mayor-elect “has never demonstrated a talent for moderation.”
It would seem that “pragmatism” in the minds of the country’s establishment punditocracy means not the dictionary definition of “dealing with a problem in a sensible way that suits the conditions that really exist,” but instead something more like “upholding the status quo.”
https://fair.org/home/for-establishment-press-the-lesson-of-mamdanis-victory-is-to-take-no-lessons/
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