There was a line in Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address that should have stopped New Yorkers cold. He pledged to replace what he called “the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of ...
New Year’s started with a bang: just hours after the ball dropped in New York City, its new mayor lauded the "warmth of collectivism," deriding America’s tradition of "rugged individualism." Many ...
On January 1, 2026, in his inaugural address as Mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani stated it plainly: “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” This ...
He declared, “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism." This was chilling and scary for this child of Soviet Union escapees to hear. It’s inconceivable to ...