You forgot to mention one thing: His pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionist policies -- which he does not hide, except from those who don't understand his thin attempts to paper them over -- are popular with the university-radicalized 20-and-30-year-olds who were the heart of Mamdani's campaign. Ponder this: Since Harry Truman recognized the State of Israel in 1947, every major Democrat has been pro-Israel, pro-Zionist. That is now over. It's good that Bill Kristol's late father is not alive to see his son's tepid, I'm-not-sure, he-is-a-fresh-voice..."critique."