There is something deeply wrong with young people in this country. There’s something bizarre going on in the New York City mayoral election. People don’t actually love Zohran Mamdani’s policies, but he’s likely to win anyway. A poll released on Tuesday found 58% of respondents feared that making buses free could make them into roaming homeless shelters, while 33% believe all fares should be eliminated. Thus, by a 25% margin, people believe that Mamdani’s free bus idea is incredibly stupid. His proposal to get rid of the city’s gifted and talented program is wildly unpopular. 64% of the same voters who are giving a plurality of their vote to Mamdani believe that gifted and talented programs should be expanded. Only 21% believe that it should be scaled back in early grades. When it comes to repealing bail reform laws and returning to the bail system before 2019, 55% want to go back to the system before “no cash bail.” Only 29% support the current program, which is what Mamdani backs. Mamdani’s policies are not that popular among voters. So why is he popular? He’s running against lousy competition. Andrew Cuomo is a particularly bad candidate. Generation Z. Generation Z is the most Left generation by a country mile. It is not close. They are far to the left of the general population on every single issue. The bizarre idea on the Right that Generation Z is going to carry us forward into a conservative future is not supported by any hard evidence. In the latest Suffolk poll on the New York City mayoral race, in which Mamdani is leading Cuomo 44% to 34%, Mamdani trails among all voters age 45+; among voters aged 35 to 44, he runs ahead by about 23 points against Cuomo, but among voters who are 18 to 34, Mamdani leads by a whopping 61 points. That means he has support in the high 70s among people 18 to 34 voting in New York City, according to that poll. And this is not a rarity. Polls of young people show that they are wildly to the left of their forebears on virtually every single issue right now. What is going wrong? Why are young people like this now? There’s always been an explanation that young people are naïve; they don’t pay taxes; they’re not ushered into an actual real life where they’re participating in the normal institutions of daily activity. Thus, they can kind of live in “airy fairy” land, where everything is handed to them on a silver platter. There’s truth to that. We have delayed adulthood for young people all the way into their thirties. But there’s something else going on, too: Young people have been told that they never have to enter adulthood. They have been told that everything ought to be handed to them, and that when things are not handed to them, it’s because they themselves have some sort of deep, abiding illness, or society itself is victimizing them in some way. All the things that would normally usher you into a more mature view of life — getting married, having kids, holding a job, and paying taxes — are things Generation Z is apparently not interested in doing and doesn’t believe that they will ever do. This is not because Gen Z is some sort of truly victimized generation in all the history of all the humans on all the planet. The idea that American Generation Z is somehow the greatest victimhood class we’ve ever had is insane and bizarre. In fact, more Generation Z people hold degrees than millennials and Gen Xers did at their age. Generation Z will be the largest and richest generation in American history within just ten years. So what’s going wrong? What exactly is happening? We have to understand that there is a radical thing that is happening with young people — on both the Left and the Right. On the Left, there is a grievance culture that is resulting in revolutionary thinking, and on the Right, a grievance culture that is resulting in a different kind of revolutionary thinking. There’s some horseshoe theory going on, and these two revolutionary movements can sometimes hold hands. You see it in a crystallized fashion with the Mamdani campaign. Canary Mission, which is a nonprofit that examines political issues from a right-leaning perspective, examined the impact of the Democratic Socialists of America, which has had an outsized impact on the Democratic Party. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was a charter member of the DSA. Mamdani is a DSA guy. The DSA is the jet fuel for the modern Democratic Party. This is not a Left-leaning, mildly progressive movement; this is a truly revolutionary movement. How does that kind of movement take over the Democratic Party? Where does it come from? The answer is that it’s been inculcated by the Boomers for generations. The Boomers and the Millennials are responsible for their children. If your child ends up being a radical, it’s difficult to say that you had nothing to do with it. The Boomers and the Millennials decided to inculcate a brand of vague anti-Americanism that then metastasized into a very virulent, cancerous form of anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism. This is why whenever I hear parents talk about their kids and they say, “I’m just giving them the tools to think; I’m not telling them what to think, what values to hold,” that’s bad parenting. You should be telling your kids what values to hold. That is the most important thing you should be doing as a parent: becoming part of that chain that Edmund Burke talks about between the past and the future, maintaining the wisdom of generations, and passing that on to your kids. If you’re not doing that, you’re not doing your job as a parent. Instead, parents have been farming out their kids to universities filled with radicals, who then teach the kids radical politics. We tell an entire generation of people that they are victims of a system that has made them the most wealthy, prosperous, and free people in the history of planet Earth. And then we sell them the soap that if you grant power to one of these people, one of these revolutionaries, they will fix all of their problems. There are a lot of politicians willing to sell that soap. The left-wing version of the grievance campaign is that America is an awful, terribly racist place that has aggrieved Third World minorities and cracked down on gays and lesbians and therefore must be brought low by the revolutionaries, that capitalism has brought us all to this horrible fate. On the Right, there is an equal and opposite movement. It is growing in power. It is not taking over the Republican Party yet, but it’s attempting to. And that right-wing movement is saying the same thing, except the victims are white Christian males, and the idea would be that white Christian males have been brought low by the system, and that therefore the only corrective action is a complete revolution against capitalism, meritocracy, and all the rest. In the seed of both of these movements, there is a grain of truth. There is truth to the idea that America, historically speaking, was not good to black people, and historically speaking, was not good to certain classes of immigrants. But it’s a flaw in the system, not a feature of the system. The same thing is true on the Right. When people say white Christian males have been put under the boot by the system, there’s certainly truth to the idea that there is discriminatory policy — both socially and in governmental policy — that has discriminated against white Christian males over the course of the last 30, 40, 50 years. There’s truth to that. But the idea that such actions are emblematic of the constitutional system or meritocracy or capitalism, and the only solution is some sort of dictatorship of the white Christian male proletariat overthrowing constitutional norms and boundaries, going after minorities, is just as revolutionary from the opposite point of view. The vast majority of Americans are normies. The vast majority of Americans like meritocracy. The vast majority of Americans believe in the traditional American dream, meaning economic progress for them and for their children, meaning the capacity to build community and church and life in freedom. The vast majority of Americans like the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. The vast majority of Americans like America. But if you let the radical revolutionary vanguard take over your party with some sort of benighted idea that you must unite with the radicals in order to achieve victory, you’re not going to achieve victory. And the victory that you achieve will be pyrrhic, because you will have sacrificed what you actually care about to people who hate that very thing. If this were really working out great for the young, why are they so depressed? Why are they so upset? Why are they so anxious? Why aren’t they getting married or reproducing? Inculcating a victimhood grievance mentality in an entire generation of people doesn’t just inhibit the working of the country, it makes those people miserable as well. * * * Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now.

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut the interest rate by 0.25% for the second time this year. The current interest rate is now 3.75% – 4.00%, a range that many investors had predicted, and the lowest level in three years.  At September’s meeting, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled that more rate cuts could be coming. Today, he shared a different message, saying, “In the Committee’s discussions, there were strongly differing views on how to proceed in December. A further reduction in policy rate at the December meeting is not a foregone conclusion — far from it. Policy is not on a preset course.”  There were two dissents from today’s 0.25% rate cut decision. One Fed Governor voted for 0.50% and another voted for no cut at all. During the Q&A portion of Powell’s address, he added that December’s decision will be complicated due to strong economic activity and growth forecasts contrasted by a cooling labor market.  The Federal Reserve continues to walk a tightrope, balancing its dual mandate of targeting inflation at 2% while seeking to reduce unemployment. Recent inflation data showed inflation at 3.0%, slightly above target and the highest since January.  Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now. Powell addressed higher tariffs, saying that they are raising the prices of a few categories of goods, but also noted that a reasonable base case regarding tariffs is that “the effects on inflation will be relatively short-lived as a one-time shift in the price level.”  The Federal Reserve closely follows the Producer Price Index (PPI) to see whether companies are absorbing higher tariff costs or passing them along to consumers. Recent PPI reports indicated that so far, businesses have largely kept those costs from reaching consumers. However, due to the government shutdown, the Federal Reserve did not receive September’s PPI Report.  “The public and private sector data that has remained available will suggest that the outlook for employment and inflation has not changed much since September,” stated Powell, addressing the fact that the government shutdown has resulted in the Fed missing critical government data.  Along with the delay in data, Powell noted that the government shutdown will weigh on economic activity. Powell expects these effects to reverse once the government reopens.  Expanding on employment, Powell stated, “Job gains have slowed this year, and the unemployment rate has edged up … labor demand has clearly softened.”  This week alone, Amazon, Target, General Motors, UPS, Chegg, and other large companies have announced mass layoffs citing AI, economic uncertainty, and global tensions. The first signs of these layoffs could appear in spikes in initial jobless claims, which document the number of individuals who file for unemployment insurance benefits. However, this report will be delayed due to the government shutdown, as the Department of Labor has had to furlough employees who produce the report. Despite concerns of a weakening labor market and potential persistent inflation, Powell eased concerns that the economy is in an AI bubble. “If you go back to the 90s and dot.com, these were ideas rather than companies, so there was a clear bubble there. Today, companies have business models and earnings, so it’s really a different thing,” Powell said.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) — The deadliest police operation in Brazil’s history killed at least 132 people, public defenders said on Wednesday, as Rio de Janeiro residents lined a street with dozens of corpses found overnight, a week ahead of global climate events in the city. State police said the raids targeting a major drug gang the day before had been planned exhaustively for more than two months, designed to drive suspects into a forested hillside where a special operations unit was waiting in ambush. “The elevated lethality of the operation was expected but not desired,” Victor Santos, head of security for Rio state, told a news conference. Rio police officials confirmed 119 deaths so far, including four police officers. Police said they had arrested 113 suspects in the operation and seized 118 firearms. Santos said there was no connection to global events Rio will host next week related to the United Nations COP30 climate summit, including the C40 global summit of mayors tackling climate change and British Prince William’s Earthshot Prize. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was surprised to learn Rio police had launched an “extremely bloody, violent” operation without notifying or involving the federal government, Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski told journalists. The minister said he planned to meet with Rio’s governor and could increase the number of federal security officials there. Lula, who returned to Brasilia late on Tuesday from a trip to Malaysia, met with Vice President Geraldo Alckmin and cabinet members on Wednesday to discuss the matter, his office said. Rio has hosted several global events over the past decade, including the 2016 Olympics, the 2024 G20 summit and the BRICS summit in July, without violence on the scale seen on Tuesday. The city’s most deadly police raid before Tuesday was a 2021 raid that left 28 people dead in the Jacarezinho neighborhood. In 1992, 111 were killed when Sao Paulo police stormed the Carandiru Penitentiary to put down a prison rebellion. Residents of the Penha neighborhood in Rio gathered dozens of corpses from the surrounding forest overnight and lined up more than 70 of the bodies in the middle of a main street. Several civil society groups and public security experts criticized the heavy casualties of the military-style raid. The United Nations Human Rights office said it adds to a trend of extremely lethal police raids in Brazil’s marginalized communities. “We remind authorities of their obligations under international human rights law, and urge prompt and effective investigations,” the agency said in a statement. Rio Governor Claudio Castro said he was certain those killed in the operation were criminals firing guns from the forest. “I don’t think anyone would be walking in the forest on the day of the conflict,” he told reporters, calling the raids an effort to combat “narcoterrorism.” “The only real victims were the police officers,” he said. The Rio state government said the operation was its largest ever to target the Comando Vermelho gang, which controls the drug trade in several favelas – poor and densely populated settlements woven through the city’s hilly oceanside terrain. (Reporting by Janaina Quinet and Rodrigo Viga Gaier; Additional reporting by Oliver Griffin, Isabel Teles, Luciana Magalhaes, Eduardo Simoes and Gabriel Araujo in Sao Paulo, and Lisandra Paraguassu in Brasilia; Editing by Brad Haynes and Rosalba O’Brien)

CNN’s chief data analyst delivered bad news to climate alarmists all across the United States on Wednesday, saying that polling indicates very few Americans view the potential threat of climate change as a major issue going into the 2026 midterm elections. Harry Enten discussed the topic with host John Berman, and he shared data showing that the percentage of Americans who were “greatly worried” about climate change had not changed drastically in nearly four decades — and had even dropped off somewhat in the last five years. WATCH: Re: Bill Gates & climate change… He’s not alone in doubting a doomsday scenario. Only 2% rank climate change as the top issue facing the USA. The % who are greatly worried has been steady since 1989. Just 17% say climate change will make it harder to stay in their home area. pic.twitter.com/T9rOtT2JqP — (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) October 29, 2025 On the heels of a comment from Berman about billionaire Bill Gates — who has been at the forefront of the climate conversation — Enten observed that even with prominent messengers, the climate alarmist narrative has not really resonated. “Yeah, I think a lot of people will agree with Bill Gates that maybe this wouldn’t be the end of humanity,” he said of the Microsoft creator’s recent pivot. “And I think, you know, we’ve been talking about climate change now for decades, upon decades, upon decades,” Enten continued. “And the worry in terms of climate change, simply put, hasn’t shifted; it has not reached the majority of Americans.” Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now. “What are we talking about? Greatly worried about climate change. You go all the way back to 1989, it was 35%. 2000, 40%.  2020, 46%. And in 2025, look at that, it’s 40%,” Enten added, noting the recent drop off. “The same number as we had 25 years ago, back in 2000, and then only just five points higher than we had back in 1989. Really, we’ve just seen consistency on this issue.” “The bottom line is that the climate change message that folks who, of course, believe that climate change is real and is quite worrisome, simply put, has not really worked with the American people,” he concluded, noting that just two percent of Americans believed climate change was a “top issue” facing the United States.

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