To revive a dead political culture that could lead to a Republican becoming governor in one of the nation's most Democratic states, the billionaire former investor is talking to voters.

"May" is forty-five years old; she could be someone you know. She could live in Des Moines, Iowa, or the suburbs of Vancouver, or Manhattan, New York. She could be an attorney, or a stay-at-home mother, or perhaps she's a sixth-grade science teacher, a job she loves so much she doesn't even think of it as work. She has a loving husband and two young daughters, eight and ten.

We get the government we choose to elect, hence the government we deserve. Voting for ever-higher punitive taxes on the rich is arguably a form of civic suicide. Consider that a wealthy New Yorker can get a raise of almost 40% just by moving. That's right. If moving eliminates a 14.8% top state and local tax rate, our top-tier taxpayer gets a 36% raise, not a 14.8% raise, by leaving. It's doubtful if any of our city and state leaders have done this math, but it's shocking. Mamdani wants to take the top rate up another 2%, if not by the state then by the city, which would mean that our rich...