{"id":38,"date":"2025-08-14T14:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/naomi-wolf-on-zohran-mamdani\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T14:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:37:16","slug":"naomi-wolf-on-zohran-mamdani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/naomi-wolf-on-zohran-mamdani\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Wolf on Zohran Mamdani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Naomi Wolf feels&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">. . . guilty because my reaction to Mamdani is so personally <em>aversive.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">It is aversive because of the lie-and-deception factor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Mamdani, as I will reveal, is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nepo_baby\">nepo son<\/a> dressed as a communist \u2014 but a communist takeover of NYC is not what really motivates this man, not what is really behind this campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Apart from the full-spectrum communist agenda which Mamdani superficially offers, one reason for my sense of personal queasiness when I consider this candidate in various settings is because I&#0160;<em>know&#0160;<\/em>guys like this. Though I am of another generation, some things do not change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">I went to school with guys like this. They are Jaspers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/naomiwolf.substack.com\/p\/why-dont-i-like-him\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Filed under: <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/hustlers-frauds-mountebanks\/\">Hustlers, Frauds, Mountebanks<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi Wolf feels&#0160; . . . guilty because my reaction to Mamdani is so personally aversive. It is aversive because of the lie-and-deception factor. Mamdani, as I will reveal, is a nepo son dressed as a communist \u2014 but a communist takeover of NYC is not what really motivates this man, not what is really &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/naomi-wolf-on-zohran-mamdani\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Naomi Wolf on Zohran Mamdani&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hustlers-frauds-mountebanks","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}