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Trump's Crypto Windfall, Dems' Anti-Establishment Wave, and the Supreme Court’s Big Week
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What Mamdani Gets Right, What Socialism Gets Wrong
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Kara makes the case that Mamdani's strength isn't ideology — it's his willingness to do things, like immediately imposing policies and asking people to set thermostats to 78 during a heat emergency. That sensible request prompted Ted Cruz and Nikki Haley to scream 'communism,' only for their own tweets from their gubernatorial days — making the same ask — to immediately surface. The hypocrisy was so obvious it did Mamdani's campaigning for him. Scott agrees the action-orientation is admirable, but draws a hard line: the far left and far right converge on economic nationalism, isolationism, and government ownership, and all of those things historically fail. Northern Europe, he argues, is not socialist — it's highly capitalist with enforced tax codes and a social safety net, not government stakes in Spotify. The real reform isn't socialism; it's closing $2.2 trillion in annual tax loopholes for corporations and the wealthy.
Scott Galloway argued the single largest US government expenditure is $2.2 trillion in tax-code givebacks to corporations and the wealthy in the form of loopholes.
