Columnist George Will told HBO host Bill Maher on “Real Time” that he wants Zohran Mamdani to win the mayoral election in New York City.

BILL MAHER: What dismays me so much about this country these days is nobody wants to even talk to each other. And we seem to be, I mean, I’ve been trying to preach here for a long time, can we kind of come together? It seems we’re going in the opposite direction. On the one hand, you have, I mean, this must be horrible for a guy like you, who you spent your whole life talking about how government tries to do too much, which it does and spends too much. And here you have Trump, who is the Republican, who is aggrandizing more power than anybody, as we just talked about. And on the other side, you have the guy running in New York, Mandami, right, okay, who’s like a straight-up communist. I mean, he is. He talks about, you know, the things that communists say. I mean, he wants free grocery stores, free buses. I want him to win. You want him to win? Yeah. GEORGE WILL: I think every 20 years or so. Wait. Every 20 years or so, we need a conspicuous, confined experiment with socialism so we can crack it up again. Socialist slogan used to be, workers of the world, unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains. The new socialist slogan is, trust us, this time it won’t be a mess. So, you know, when the post-war labor government in Britain was about to get started, one of their leading lights was a socialist named Anurin Bevan. He said, what could go wrong? He said, we have a nation bedded on coal, surrounded by fish. It would take an organizational genius to have a shortage of either. In three years, they had a shortage of both. That’s socialism.

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