We’re approaching the mid-point of the year and I’ve already shared three candidates for counter-tweet of the year.

• Slapping down a leftist who wanted people to think capitalism is correlated with poverty.
• Slapping down a leftist who wanted people to think China delivers more for citizens than the United States.
• Slapping down a leftist who wanted people to think socialism delivers more than capitalism.

Today, we’re going to add another contestant.

Except this is a double-counter-tweet. It’s starts with Daniel di Martina dunking on the new Democrat nominee for Mayor in New York City. And then Mike Coté piles on.

For those who haven’t followed political developments in New York City, Zohran Mamdani is an AOC-style lunatic leftist who ran on a platform of endless tax increases to finance endless handouts (like AOC, he’s a member of the Democratic Socialists of America).

Basically another Bill de Blasio, but perhaps even worse.

Perversely, I sort of hope Mamdani wins. Not because I hate New York City, but rather because the world needs good lessons and bad lessons.

So just in case people haven’t learned from leftist failures in Cuba, California, France, Venezuela, Greece, Illinois, and elsewhere, a Mamdani victory will create another case study.

Let’s close with this meme that summarizes the choice between bad options (Mamdani on the left) and good options (Milei on the right).

If the kid in the cartoon is a voter, consider this a choice between economic suicide and economic salvation. Sadly, I’m not optimistic in most cases about people having the wisdom to choose wisely.

P.S. Greece has actually taken a few steps in the right direction. Not quite Milei-style radical reform, but some positive developments. If progress continues, I may have to stop citing that nation as a failure.