The bill for ‘free stuff’ always arrives. Just ask the generation that believed Mamdani

Throughout the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, the United States spent billions and billions of dollars to prevent communism from spreading throughout the world. Why would we write off New York City and abdicate to this dangerous ideology now?
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