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Just a few months ago, New York’s socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, struck a triumphant tone. Taking aim at the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s repeatedly vindicated truism that “the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money,” Mamdani asserted, “You eventually need a socialist to clean up the mess.”