Last week, sitting with his laptop at San Diego International Airport, Scott Panzer fired off an email that ended up grabbing headlines and costing him his post at a major global real estate firm. Knowing Panzer, real estate insiders say, he’d probably do it all over again.

Panzer’s reply was provocative for sure — and for good reason, he maintains. Peter Riguardi, the chairman and president of JLL’s New York regional office, sent a memo urging staffers to “give (Mamdani) a chance to lead.” This was despite Mamdani’s thin resume, his pledges to vastly expand the welfare state , his radical views on policing and his refusal to denounce the phrase “globalize the intifada”.

Panzer responded by comparing the sentiment to acquiescence that led to the rise of Adolf Hitler. Reached over the w

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