Zohran Mamdani's CNN Interview Was So Moronic That Even Abby Phillip Couldn't Let It Slide

It's not often I have a reason to give Abby Phillip credit, but you know what they say about blind squirrels and finding nuts. The left-wing host, who typically spends her time trying to lecture Scott Jennings for being right about everything, interviewed communist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, who is currently the favorite to win the position. Needless to say, it was like watching a child try to explain quantum physics. 

During their sit-down, Phillip pressed Mamdani on his government-owned grocery store proposal. It didn't go well for him. 

Abby Phillip actually did her job while interviewing socialist NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani.

"Why is the government a better solution for a lack of grocery stores, food deserts, than just working with the private sector?"

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PHILLIP: Why is the government a better solution for a lack of grocery stores, food deserts, than just working with the private sector to have them do what they know how to do, which is run grocery stores? What's your answer to that?

MAMDANI: There are more than 1,000 grocery stores in New York City. I'm proposing creating five additional ones, one in each borough of New York City, that the city would run that would guarantee cheaper groceries. Not free food, but cheaper groceries, and part of that is because food is a necessity for New Yorkers. It's a necessity for everyone, and yet it's something that people are being priced out of, and we can see the promise and the possibility of a public option, and we've seen in studies that have been done about the applicability of this in an urban setting like Chicago, that this is something that we can actually deliver here right in New York City.

PHILLIP: But there's another example in Kansas City, where they had a government-run grocery store, and it's been there for years, but it's on the verge of closing because it doesn't work. They've been riddled with crime. They've dealt with just a lack of inventory. There are other examples where it just hasn't worked because, frankly, the government is not that good at being in the business of being in grocery stores."

It's incredible to me that our country has gotten to a place where slick-talking communists are not only being taken seriously but can win major elections, even in blue areas like New York City. Has this trust fund even bothered to consider anything he's actually saying? Let's game this out.
 
If you put five government-owned and run grocery stores spread out across the city, several things are going to happen. If the groceries truly are "cheaper," the stores will be overwhelmed, and it will be essentially impossible to keep things in stock. I know what the communists are going to say. "But, if that happens, then it's a success, and that just means you open even more government-owned stores!" 

The problem is that money is not infinite. New York City will not be able to sell groceries at a loss forever. In fact, it’s already been revealed that the “funding” Mamdani believes he’s going to use for this derives from his inability to read a government website properly. The millions he claims are sitting in the bank don’t actually exist. 

See: Zohran Mamdani’s Big Government-Owned Grocery Store Idea Takes a Predictable, Hilarious Turn

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