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How Mamdani Charmed Trump in the Oval Office | The Weekly Assignment with Susan Demas, Sam Osterhout, & Evan Fields

Trump’s fixation on relevance was on full display in his thirsty interaction with Zoran Mamdani at the White House.

Susan J. Demas, Sam Osterhout, and Evan Fields
Nov 24
 
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  • Vibes-driven politics now shapes even the strangest encounters, revealing how ego, image, and intuition can redirect national attention in an instant.

  • The Venezuela escalations reflect an administration driven by impulse, not strategy, blurring distraction and danger in ways that can spill far beyond headlines.

  • Foreign-run bot networks continue warping online discourse, showing how chaos becomes a commodity while real communities rebuild trust the slow way.


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Susan J. Demas, Sam Osterhout, and Evan Fields sketch out a political landscape defined less by ideology than by appetite—who wants attention, who knows how to command it, and who’s willing to exploit confusion for power. Their read on the Mamdani meeting cuts through the noise, showing how easily Trump drifts toward whoever reflects back the image he craves, while the deeper conversation about Venezuela reveals what happens when impulse replaces restraint and national security becomes another stage prop. Layer in the revelations about offshore bot farms steering online sentiment, and the week feels like a study in engineered instability—yet their insistence on grounding everything in real people and real stakes keeps the discussion anchored.

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A year ago, Zohran Mamdani was polling at one percent. Every pundit said his mayoral campaign in New York City was a sideshow — a socialist experiment that might play on Twitter but not on ballots. He wasn’t supposed to beat a legacy name like Andrew Cuomo, or the millionaires and billionaires who poured obscene amounts of money into trying to…

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