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Right-Wingers Are Actually Fake Individualists

The contrived outrage at Zohran Mamdani's use of "solidarity" is just performative politics

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Marcus Tisdale
Jan 02, 2026
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The inauguration of Zohran Mamdani as the 111th mayor of New York City on January 1, 2026, was always going to be a spectacle. It was the ascension of the first Muslim mayor of America’s largest city, a democratic socialist who took his oath on the Quran in a decommissioned subway station before a crowd shivering in the January chill. But the true spect…

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