Mamdani learned all the wrong lessons from Idi Amin’s Third Worldism

In 1972, an infamous event unfolded in Uganda — one that that subtly reverberates in American politics today. That’s when Idi Amin, the unhinged dictator who beggared Uganda and killed an estimated 300,000 of its people during his eight-year rule, expelled around 76,000 people of Asian descent and expropriated their wealth. One of those ousted was Mahmood Mamdani, father of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Yet the mayor, and the Democratic Socialists of America movement he helps lead, has resisted the lessons that his family experience could have taught him about the dangers of class resentment and racial and…