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As I walked along Manhattan’s 11th Avenue one day in late April, the wind seemed as if it were trying to blow the plywood outdoor-dining huts over and rip the spindly trees from the ground. I arrived early to the Gotham West Market food court. My date, Andrew Yang, showed up unfazed by the violent weather, as buoyant as he appears on TV.
A candidate for mayor of New York City, Yang is a businessman and failed nonprofiteer with no experience governing and a hodgepodge of centrist, liberal, banal, and just plain quirky opinions. He has some potentially interesting ideas a public bank, for instance but he also loves solutions involving philanthropy and public-private partnerships. And right now, although Eric Adams, an ex-cop and a more conventional politician, has been pulling ahead recently, Yang is polling well with every demographic, including those identifying as progressive or liberal. With his name recognition, he could easily win a race ma
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The Atlantic proclaim, respectively, âThe eccentric-entrepreneur-turned-failed-presidential-candidate is campaigning on a promise to make the city fun again. It might workâ and âHis proposals are radical. Heâs obsessed with robots. Heâs never even worked in government. And next year he might be running New York.â
A lot of coverage of Yang paints him as an affable nerd who is quirky, a self-described math obsessive, and a cheerleader for New Yorkâs post-COVID recovery. Some of the upbeat, apolitical selling points for Yangâs campaign are that heâs youthful and an agent of change â a term that is rarely defined but often implied to mean progressive. As
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