Transcript
Brad Palumbo (0:00)
Foreign.
Kennedy (0:10)
Hello and welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World. So Zoran Momdani went to the White House and everyone was like, yay, Kumbaya. This is amazing. Look how cute Zoran and Donald are. They're best friends. Hate loses, love wins. But it turns out it only took 48 hours and Zoran was back to calling the president a fascist and a despot. And you know, maybe the, the love was short lived, but how did we get here in the first place? I blame the youngs, young millennials and gen zers who can vote. They fell for Zoron's dimples in social media game. And here to break it all down is one of my very favorite young influencers, Brad Palumbo. He is obviously an independent journalist and YouTuber, but he's also blankly fellow with Steamboat Institute, a contributor at the Washington examiner, and he hosts Brad vs. Everyone, which is an award winning podcast. Brad Palumbo, welcome back to Kennedy Saves the World.
Brad Palumbo (1:19)
Thank you so much for having me. It's good to be with you. And the awards are still yet to come for the podcast, but the award of your support is the only award that really matters.
Kennedy (1:28)
That's the one that matters and it counts. You can put that on your resume. So how did, how did Daran Mamdani get elected? What happened? Is this just a different flavor of populism cast in a socialist light? How did, how did he sneak over the goal line?
Brad Palumbo (1:47)
Well, I think that it's easy to overanalyze his victory a little much because you do have to remember what the alternative was.
Kennedy (1:54)
Awful, horrible, awful and abysmal.
Brad Palumbo (1:57)
Yeah. And then Curtis Lewa, I mean, he's a Republican, New York City. So it's always going to be a massive uphill, uphill challenge. But when you had Andrew Cuomo as the alternative option in the Democratic primary.
Kennedy (2:07)
I mean, Curtis Lewa looks like an old lady in Paris stumbled into a beret shop.
Brad Palumbo (2:13)
Have you seen what's above the hat, why he always keeps the hat on?
Kennedy (2:16)
Yes, I have. He took it off a few times and it was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Brad Palumbo (2:19)
Put it back on, put her back on. But I, I think we, we should be maybe not reading as much into it as, oh, this represents a revolution in American politics. It's actually just like there were really terrible options. And people chose one of the terrible options who was charismatic and good looking and, yes, cartoonishly radical. But frankly, I think a lot of young people don't care. They agree with a lot of it. And then the Extent to which they don't agree with it, it's because they haven't seen it implemented. Right. Zoran tweeted about defund the police, but it's not like it actually happened. It's not like the NYPD shut up shop. So I think a lot of the things that young people find attractive about his policy platforms. Who wouldn't love the sound of free everything? But I do worry that we're going to have to enter a mess around and find out phase in New York City if he actually gets to implement some of this stuff. And the free buses turn into mobile homeless shelter.