Mayor Zohran Mamdani stepped up his outreach to New York’s business elite this week in an attempt to soothe the feelings of the city’s richest denizens, who remain miffed over a video shot in front of a billionaire’s apartment announcing a plan to tax second homes.

Democratic New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani flipped a famous Ronald Reagan quote on its head to justify government-controlled grocery stores in a Monday speech. The former anti-communist Republican president was wrong to say in 1986 that “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government,