CNN’s Fareed Zakaria recently had a moment of clarity and admitted that one-party rule by the far left is ruining American cities. He devoted an entire monologue to it and sounded more like someone on FOX News than CNN.
He kicked it off by focusing on Zohran Mamdani but eventually got around to mentioning Chicago and Los Angeles as examples as well.
He notes the massive taxes that people pay in New York and the awful return that they get for the price. He touches on education, housing and more.
It’s pretty amazing for someone on CNN to admit all of this.
PJ Media has details:
Zakaria opened with Zohran Mamdani’s New York, calling it “a prime example of a problem Democrats seem unwilling to confront.” That’s a pretty remarkable admission from a CNN host, but I assure you, he was just getting started.
“Blue cities are out of control,” he said, “promising more, spending more, delivering less, and pushing off the fiscal problems to some future day.”
He then turned to Los Angeles, and the numbers he cited are staggering. Zakaria noted that the city’s homelessness budget for fiscal year 2025-2026 alone totals roughly $950 million. Not the cumulative total over several years. One year. And what has all that money bought? He explained that the LA Homelessness Services Authority reported that homelessness increased by 9% countywide and 10% within the city in 2023. A 2024 AP account found that homelessness had surged by 70% countywide since 2015 and by 80% within the city.
“All this amid public frustration, despite billions spent,” Zakaria said…
Then Zakaria asked the key question Democrats never ask: “What is the theory of good government here?” His answer was cutting. “If the answer is keep adding programs, the city will keep producing unaffordability, because unaffordability is what happens when government becomes a machine that grows faster than the society it governs.”
Watch this whole video, it’s remarkable:
Blue cities are out of control, promising more, spending more, delivering less and pushing off fiscal problems to some future day.
Democrats in city halls should stop governing as if the goal is to announce new entitlements, and instead make government work.
My take: pic.twitter.com/kwYkA4XEjx
— Fareed Zakaria (@FareedZakaria) February 22, 2026
Zohran Mamdani’s proposed budget for New York City is bigger than the budget for the entire state of Florida, yet Florida is producing better results and people are flocking there to live.
Someone needs to share this video with Mamdani. Maybe he’ll learn something.
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