The Perfect Storm.

New Yorkers (or at least the 21st century version of Tammany Hall) elect a mayor with the two most despotic philosophies: Muslim and Socialist.

My prediction (And I tend to be very bad at them) is that a form of Berlin Wall will soon be enacted by the new Mayor in complicity with the rest of the local pols. It won’t be a real wall topped with razor wire and presiding over a death strip of landmines and machine guns to keep New Yorkers from fleeing, but a legal one that will force business to stay within the city or face severe legal penalties including prison time so they can be properly squeezed to death to pay for the social programs Madani promised in his campaign.

The new Mayor will now find out something politicians of his kind in South America have know for ages after stomping in barrios and favelas. I heard this from the outgoing Mayor of Caracas after he was beat by the Chavista candidate back in the 90s:
“It is easier to promise clean water to come out of every spigot than actually make it happen.”

And It may be crass to say, but if another 9/11-like attack were to happen in NYC, my guess is that a lot of Americans would be reacting the same way I would.

Then again, maybe another 9/11 just happened, just in very slow motion.