The People's Republic of NYC - With Rafael Mangual

Rafael Mangual is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and authour of the book Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most.

He joins us to explain what the HECK is going on with the DSA in New York, what it was like to grow up as a Dominican-Puerto Rican New Yorker with a cop for a father, what BLM and the Defund the Police movement got wrong, and what’s in store for all of us in Mamdani’s New York.

Follow Rafael on X, and don’t forget to check out the episode on YouTube as well!

Also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!! You rock. Here are a few things we love about you, in no particular order. What are we missing?

* Amazon Prime

* Sam Harris

* Air Conditioning

* Peanut Butter

* Movie Theatre soda

* Yellowstone National Park (actually, all national parks)

* The Blue Angels

* Turning right on red

* Halloween

* Women that call you “Hon”

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