Comments on: Open thread 10/31/2025 https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/31/open-thread-10-31-2025/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:00:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/31/open-thread-10-31-2025/#comment-2828345 Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:00:17 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144354#comment-2828345 It’s hard for me to understand how any New Yorker who has thought about politics, economics, religion and criminal justice for more than 5 minutes can vote for Mamdani.
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He’s 33 years old, has a spotty job history, and has no executive experience at all. He’s prospering because the New York electorate is composed of frivolous people.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/31/open-thread-10-31-2025/#comment-2828344 Sat, 01 Nov 2025 12:58:28 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144354#comment-2828344 there are vicious Jew-haters on both right…
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You had a couple on this board (‘zaphod’, ‘rcocean’) that you tossed off if I’m not mistaken. (One you can still find him on the Althouse board). These chuds are not manifestations of a demographically or culturally significant element. It’s distressing that Ron Unz has lost his marbles and Tucker Carlson is sliding down the greasy slope, but I’m wagering the outcome will be that they’ll be left with an insignificant corps of listeners who have idiosyncratic issues. (Having been a Sailer follower, my guess would be that In the case of most, they’re stewing over Seth Kaye having swiped their college girlfriend, David Baum having represented their wife in that divorce case, and Hy Goldberg having given them a bad performance review).

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/31/open-thread-10-31-2025/#comment-2828343 Sat, 01 Nov 2025 12:46:04 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144354#comment-2828343 There is no “Jewish mainstream.”
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Yes there is. It is predominantly bourgeois, modally professional-managerial, only residually religious if that, and descended from pre-war immigration streams. It is urban-metropolitan, with 40% or so living around New York or Miami. Such people vote Democratic by margins of 4-1. Mamdani can peel of a segment of this population, though not most.

]]> By: Rufus T. Firefly https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/31/open-thread-10-31-2025/#comment-2828327 Sat, 01 Nov 2025 10:36:42 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144354#comment-2828327 It’s hard for me to understand how any New Yorker who has thought about politics, economics, religion and criminal justice for more than 5 minutes can vote for Mamdani.

But here we are.

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/31/open-thread-10-31-2025/#comment-2828307 Sat, 01 Nov 2025 03:41:05 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144354#comment-2828307 Art Deco:

There is no “Jewish mainstream.” Orthodox Jews vote for the right. Secular Jews are mostly dwellers in blue cities and vote for the most part as other inhabitants of blue cities do, for the left. Jews in the middle between those two extremes vote in the middle.

Jewish support for Mamdani in NYC is probably the lowest it’s been for any Democratic nominee for years and years and years. Here’s the most recent poll:

Sixty percent of Jewish respondents said that if the election were held during the survey period between October 23 and 27, they would vote for Cuomo, while 16% said that they would vote for NY Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani.

Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa yielded 12% of the vote from survey participants, and eight percent said that they were undecided.

Plus, in terms of enemies, there are vicious Jew-haters on both right and left. More on the left until recently, but the right is starting to have more and more of them, especially among the young.

]]> By: SD https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/31/open-thread-10-31-2025/#comment-2828292 Sat, 01 Nov 2025 01:05:57 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144354#comment-2828292 Must Watch Video – Hostile Takeover – – how the DSA has TAKEN OVER the Democratic Party

https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/10/must-watch-video-hostile-takeover-how.html

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/31/open-thread-10-31-2025/#comment-2828287 Fri, 31 Oct 2025 23:55:28 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144354#comment-2828287 I’m not seeing what Cruz is seeing.
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Leftists embrace awful causes by default, I suspect for much the same reason people pretend to be interested in the art and architecture of the last century. The prominence of mainstream Jews in financing various domestic causes has put the brakes on embracing revanchist Arab / Muslim particularism. The influence of the Jewish population is declining and you can readily peel off segments of it who are simply not anymore loyal to Jewry than they are to anyone else outside their social circles.
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I’d be pleased to see the Jewish mainstream figure out who their enemies are and who they are not, but I’m expecting squat.

]]> By: David Foster https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/31/open-thread-10-31-2025/#comment-2828268 Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:03:13 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144354#comment-2828268 Anti-Semitism on the Right–How Much of a Trend?

https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/75331.html

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/31/open-thread-10-31-2025/#comment-2828247 Fri, 31 Oct 2025 20:50:35 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144354#comment-2828247 I encourage humility.
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I’d encourage you to realize that process servers do not spring up out of the ground and start handing out papers willy nilly. Someone’s agency is implicated in this.
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I’ve been acquainted with three examples of gray divorce. Two of the three were childless 2d marriages contracted late in life. At the beginning of one set of proceedings, the wife was 65 and the husband 85; they owned two homes and she had been living in one (in Virginia) and he in the other (in Florida). In re the other, the wife was 88 and the husband older. The husband died within a few years and the wife landed in a nursing home and eventually died; the divorce suit was an early indicator she was losing her marbles. The third was of a marriage with children which imploded around age 70 consequent to the husband’s serial adulteries. He lived another 16 years, she another 20 years.
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Going on some dates with someone in one’s twenties and guessing whether the two of you can buy property together, bear and raise children together and remain committed to whomever either of you evolves or devolves to in 30 years is an incredible roll of the dice.
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People manage.

]]> By: Rufus T. Firefly https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/31/open-thread-10-31-2025/#comment-2828246 Fri, 31 Oct 2025 20:29:18 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144354#comment-2828246 Dwaz,

His wife seems to have some ties to Arizona, or someplace in the southwest. Over the years he’s alluded to them retiring there. I think at least some of her family members live there. James Lileks is unusually sentimental and tied to his home, and things, but I doubt that’s it. Or all of it. My wife and I have even lived in separate states in two different homes when circumstances warranted it. A compromise where she winters in Arizona and he visits a few times while she’s there should be very doable, if that was the only issue.

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