One of my favorite longtime friends is a New York City denizen. She loves the Big Apple and is a staunch proponent of its many virtues. She and her husband (also a good friend from long ago) spent a week in and around Delray Beach last week.
We had several great and fun conversations, but we did not dive into a conversation about their recently elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani. She once told me how much she admired him, and that she voted for him knowing he was both a Socialist and an anti-Zionist Muslim. We have too many miles of good memories between us, so I thought discretion in this case would be to keep my mouth shut.
That’s not true. The truth is that I was dying to bring up the topic in a teasing way, but K cautioned me not to do it. I didn’t want to argue because I’ve never won an argument with K. Even scarier: I was afraid I’d discover that she, too, is a Mamdani fan!
So, rather than risk those very real and present dangers, I stayed mute and used the stored energy to write a piece on him for today.
