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Subscribe NowOn Tuesday, radical candidates backed by Zohran Mamdani won multiple Democratic primaries in New York City—virtually guaranteeing that they will win in the general election. Worst among them is Darializa Chevalier, now the nominee for New York’s 13th congressional district, who has publicly proclaimed her hatred for Israel, the United States, and “Western civilization” as a whole. John Podhoretz examines how things came to this point:
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