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Jan Penfrat
@ilumium@eupolicy.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

Gotta love The Guardian for those quotes from Europeans on #Mamdani's win in NYC:

"Verbeek backed this with a comment he had overheard in an Oslo cafe, in which Mamdani was described as an American politician who “finally” sounded normal."

“Normal. That’s the word,” Verbeek wrote in his newsletter, The Planet. “Here, taking care of one another through public programs isn’t radical socialism. It’s Tuesday.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/06/europe-zohran-mamdani-policies-normal

the Guardian

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’

Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
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