Democrats select socialism
The Big Apple is one step closer to electing a radical leftist mayor. In the Democratic primary last Tuesday, Zohran Mamdani won the byzantine ranked choice contest where an algorithm says he defeated former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
That means the 33-year-old newcomer will face Mayor Eric Adams in November’s general election. “As mayor, I will create a network of city-owned grocery stores,” Mr. Mamdani promised in a video. “It’s like a public option for produce. … These stores will operate without a profit motive or having to pay property taxes or rent.”
It’s safe to say this man, who has been a U.S. citizen for only seven years, won’t be endorsing any “America First” policies as the city’s top official. “He is not an [American] at all. He was born in Uganda, raised between India and America. He is at home in many places. He thinks of himself as a Ugandan and as an Indian,” his mother, Mira Nair, said in an interview with the Hindustan Times.
As soon as Mr. Mamdani arrived at these shores and headed to college, he began agitating for Hamas. “I was somebody who began my journey in organizing and in politics by co-founding my school’s first Students for Justice in Palestine. The struggle for Palestinian liberation was at the core of my politics and continues to be,” Mr. Mamdani proclaimed in an address two years ago to the Democratic Socialists of America.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller questioned the wisdom of elevating someone who shares no allegiance to this nation or its values. “The commentary about NYC Democrats nominating an anarchist-socialist for Mayor omits one point: how unchecked migration fundamentally remade the NYC electorate,” he wrote on X. “Democrats change politics by changing voters. That’s how you turn a city that defined US dominance into what it is now.”
According to city estimates, “international inflows of humanitarian migrants” during the Biden administration added more than 360,000 to the city’s population as 790,000 residents fled the rising crime and tax rates. Such demographic shifts have profound effects on political outcomes.
The result is that 3.1 million New Yorkers weren’t born in this country. Although Mr. Mamdani campaigned on a platform of giving noncitizens as many freebies as possible, it was guilt-ridden, wealthy White liberals who proved to be his most enthusiastic supporters.
That wasn’t because Mr. Mamdani had an impressive resume. He was a community organizer who made a successful bid for a seat in the state Assembly. At the time, Mr. Mamdani highlighted his intention to give felons the vote, not that he thinks anyone should spend a moment behind bars.
His agenda included ending cash bail, legalizing prostitution and drug possession, reducing all prison sentences, prohibiting cooperation with immigration authorities and defunding the New York Police Department.
“Another world is possible, one where instead of consigning people to the violence of incarceration, we create space for them to heal and thrive,” Mr. Mamdani wrote on X. This insurgent may find Mr. Adams, who is running as an independent, a more formidable challenge. After Mr. Adams complained about President Biden’s “broken immigration policies [that] overloaded our shelter system,” the Justice Department diminished his reelection prospects with criminal corruption charges.
Should Mr. Mamdani prevail, he would join other out-of-the-closet socialists such as Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson in ruining a great American metropolis into the ground. Expect the escape from New York to continue, as fed-up residents flock to Palm Beach.
— The Washington Times