Fresh off of trouncing competitors like former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa in this week's election, future New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced his transition team. One name stands out as an especially bad harbinger of how Mamdani's mayoral tenure might play out: Lina Khan.

Khan, who served as Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair under Joe Biden, will be one of four cochairs of Mamdani's transition team .

"The poetry of campaigning may have come to a close last night at 9, but the beautiful prose of governing has only begun," said Mamdani yesterday. "The hard work of improving New Yorkers' lives starts now."

Of course, one transition team member isn't going to make or break whatever agenda Mamdani has planned. And there are reasons enough to worry about that agenda wi

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