Last week’s reminder from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani seemed wholly unremarkable. As the city confronted an usually rough heat wave, the mayor published a July 1 post encouraging New Yorkers to set the air conditioners to 78 degrees, turn off electronics they’re not using and unplug as much as possible, all in the hopes of helping the power grid.
Plenty of officials in many states have said the same thing for the same reason in recent years. Nevertheless, to put it mildly, Republicans did not take Mamdani’s message well.
Failed presidential candidate Nikki Haley responded with a “welcome to socialism” message, despite the fact that she made similar recommendations as South Carolina’s governor. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas added, “In a first-world country, you could turn on the A/C,” apparently oblivious to his own home state having issued similar directives many times without incident. Fox News’ Jesse Watters told viewers, in reference to Mandani’s recommendations, “It’s a slippery slope; they’re going to say one-child policy next. This is how communism starts; they start rationing things.”
Oh please holy shit PLEASE let a few journalists start using this term in their reporting…!
I mean, I heard ODS quite a bit during Obama’s two terms. Not nearly enough. I suggest we use it as much as possible for people like Mamdani (and AOC, etc).
(It all started with “Bush Derangement Syndrome”, but that never really made much sense, that was just liberals pointing out the flaws of W and it drove people like Krauthammer nuts. This, from the guy that called the Iraq quagmire a “three week war”. Yeah, everyone else critiquing such a dumb take had “Bush Derangement Syndrome”.)
They’d need to either hear it said or think of it themselves, best way to make that happen is to use it as often as you can.