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And Steve shoots up in his chair and asks, ‘What did you just say?’—as if the guy had just uttered the most preposterous statement in the history of finance.

But no matter how many times those analysts might have uttered the words, “great quarter, guys,” in recent weeks, the message hasn’t reached stock investors.

The friends at my kitchen counter landed on some delectable gossip—the kind nobody would dare utter at a public cafe, much less print in a national newspaper.

It isn’t necessarily true that Mr. Mamdani, unless he is an utter failure, will sour those outside New York on the Democratic Party.

Could a human handle such utter isolation without going insane?