Someone challenged me this afternoon to explain why Ugandan-born socialist Zohran Mamdani, who had just become the first Muslim mayor-elect of New York City, was a bad guy. I provided my response, and my querent fobbed it off saying that he disagreed with nearly all of it but offered no counter-argument at all. That’s fine. There’s a truth that’s been handed down through the generations about people: never argue with someone who buys ink by the barrel. Social media is an endless barrel of pixels. That also brings another truth: you can’t win the internet. But I did make him think and here’s my reply.