THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Mason Letteau Stallings) - Is James Fishback the William F. Buckley of Florida?
The National Review founder’s 1965 mayoral run may be a more apt analogy than Zohran Mamdani’s 2025 campaign. The post Is James Fishback the William F. Buckley of Florida? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Is James Fishback the William F. Buckley of Florida? The National Review founder’s 1965 mayoral run may be a more apt analogy than Zohran Mamdani’s 2025 campaign. Recent discussion has swirled as to whether James Fishback, the young outsider candidate in Florida’s Republican primary with a penchant for appealing to Gen Z, is a right-wing equivalent of the left’s Zohran Mamdani. Ben Clerkin’s February 20 article at The Spectator posed this question openly under the headline “Is James Fishback the right’s answer to Zohran Mamdani?” But there is a different New York mayoral race that may provide key insights into…Open