Jon Stewart presses Mamdani on where he breaks with fellow Democratic socialists on prisons and borders

Talk show host Jon Stewart asked New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani where he disagrees with fellow Democratic socialists who are rising in the Democratic Party during a Wednesday episode of his podcast, "The Weekly Show."Stewart, who has long been a fixture of centrist Democratic Party politics, noted on his show that times have changed, in that "now Democratic socialism is considered the hottest trend in the Democratic Party and there's grassroots energy and all — and these Democratic socialist candidates are popping up, and you're having to answer for every one of their policy positions.""Look, maybe I'm an old man or a s--- lib or whatever they want to call me," Stewart said."If someone says we're going to abolish all prisons and borders, like I do go, ‘I don't think that's a good idea.’ Like, it feels like order and security is also a progressive value.

Why shouldn't people in neighborhoods with less resources have the same safety and security that neighborhoods with lots of resources?"SOCIALISM’S RISE INSIDE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NOW THREATENS THE AMERICAN DREAMMonths after being inaugurated himself, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been credited for ushering in a new wave of democratic socialists behind him.(Michael M.

Santiago/Getty Images)He then proceeded to ask Mamdani, "So are there tenets of those that are kind of following in the wake of Zohran Mamdani's success that you're not comfortable with or that give you pause?"Mamdani replied, "If you have more than one socialist in a room and there isn't disagreement, then you don't have more than one socialist in a room."Mamdani went on to say he is perfectly comfortable with such discussions, so long as they are productive."Well, I'm comfortable with disagreement, and I'm comfortable with disagreement that doesn't end the conversation entirely, because I think what motivates a lot of people is, ‘How do you deliver public safety?" Mamdani said."And the thing that I've said time and again is, ‘We cann...