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Election Day Comments, Before and After

By Robin Itzler 

Editor's Note: This is a commentary in Robin's weekly newsletter Patriot Neighbors.  Any cartoons are added by me.  If you wish to get the full edition, E-mail her at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com to get on her list, it's free. RK

Let’s look at some of the comments made before Election Day.

Bill Maher, liberal commentator—podcast:

"He (Mamdani) definitely has the power and influence to elect JD Vance, or whoever is the Republican candidate next time. It is a walking commercial for the Republican Party nationally."

President Donald Trump; Truth Social

"If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home, because of the fact that, as a Communist, this once great City has ZERO chance of success, or even survival!

"It can only get worse with a Communist at the helm, and I don’t want to send, as President, good money after bad. It is my obligation to run the Nation, and it is my strong conviction that New York City will be a Complete and Total Economic and Social Disaster should Mamdani win."

Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D.; Arizona Today (excerpt)

"Zohran Mamdani is an example of the anti-American, anti-Christian assault already underway to collapse this exceptional (not perfect) nation. Our founding principles are far and away removed from the Marxist/Islamic darkness working to destroy what was given to us if we would keep it. 

Do not think only large cities are the targets. Small and rural communities are a major target of the Marxist movement with the thought that no one will really pay attention to who serves on a public parks board, or library board, or zoning committee, etc. Slowly and deliberately, deceptively and appearing innocent but with new ideas, personalities, like New York City Mayoral candidate Mamdani are coming into the light - NOT to serve but to collapse the unique and wonderful country given to us. 

Come out of your comfortable numbness! WAKE UP…America is under assault."

Read New York City on Edge of Collapse by Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D.

Let’s look at some of the comments made after Election Day:

Scott Pinsker, “PR Fallout of an Electoral Drubbing: How MAGA Fights Back” - PJ Media

"Mamdani’s left-of-Lenin politics, Jew-hatred, and unabashed anti-Americanism make him the perfect foil for the Republican Party. He’s the living, breathing embodiment of every leftwing trope, stereotype, and cliché." 

 

Jim Hoft, “Socialist Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani Declares War on President Trump” - The Gateway Pundit

 

"This is the new Left, obsessed with tearing down not only Trump but also the millions of Americans who believe in faith, freedom, and the rule of law." 

 

Chef Andrew Gruel, X post (regular guest on Gutfeld)

 

"Exit polls show 92% of California voters who voted yes on prop 50 thought they were voting to impeach Trump."

Arthur Schaper, “Election 2025: What Happened?”, American Thinker (excerpts)

"A lot of the new MAGA Trump voters are centrist or liberal-leaning independents who have joined the GOP. These voters don’t get engaged beyond the presidential elections. Republican activists must concentrate their efforts on getting them to vote more.

 

"Republicans need to understand that they have to maintain a winning message and a winning organization, whether President Trump is running at the the top of the ticket or not. Republicans cannot get comfortable with trusting that a spirit of Trumpism or a veneer of Trump sentiment will pull them across the finish line for every future election."

Read Election 2025: What Happened? By Arthur Schaper.

Gary Bauer, American Values (excerpts from Nov. 5 newsletter)

"Election Day was a massacre at the ballot box for Republicans. It was also a tremendous defeat for anyone who believes in faith, family, and freedom. The Left swept virtually everything. Across the country, it wasn’t just Democrats who won, but far-left socialists who won.

 

"Many of our political allies believe that Mamdani will be the “kiss of death” for the Democrats. That’s wishful thinking. It would be true if it were 1980, 1984, or 1988. It was less true in the 90s, and it’s not true today when 66% of Democrats have a positive view of socialism.

 

"Both AOC and Mamdani are left-wing, populist demagogues. They know how to rally the average person to their banner. The affordability issue is H-U-G-E, and a significant part of the GOP establishment doesn’t get it."

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John Nolte, “GOP Can Fully Embrace MAGA or Face More Tuesday Night Election Beatings,” Breibart News (excerpt)

"Fourth, it really is the economy, stupid; and, of late, Trump has been awfully distracted with world events — trade deals, peace deals, etc. There’s been a lot of world travel. There’s been a lot of success. Nevertheless, the Trump Administration needs to refocus on Making America Great Again, which is a lot less attractive to any president. After all, overseas, U.S. presidents hold all the power. Domestically, it’s all about in-fighting, compromise, haggling, and partial victories. The lure of foreign policy is obvious, but it can also be a trap." 

Finally: 

In his acceptance speech, communist Zohran Mamdani told President Trump he had four words for him regarding what will be happening in New York City: Turn up the volume.

President Trump responded on Truth Social with his own four words: And so it begins ..

 

Socialism Didn’t Win. Social Media Hype Did.

By Daniel Greenfield

1. No, Mamdani Doesn't Have a Mandate.

Zohran Mamdani won a little over 1 million votes (at current count) in a city with a population of around 7 million adults.

That’s about 14%.

The total election turnout was a little over 2 million (that will likely increase) making for an election turnout of 28%.

That’s not even a third of New York City’s population.

New York City’s election turnout has always been weak. And while the city has a large illegal alien population, it still has 5 million registered voters. That’s a below 40% turnout rate even for registered voters.

The media is hyping this as the highest election turnout in decades. Only if you don’t pay attention to population growth.

In the 1993 showdown between Giuliani and Dinkins, a racist hack who let the city burn, and whom Bill de Blasio viewed as an inspiration, 1.9 million voters turned out in a city with a smaller population and 3 million registered voters for a 59% voter turnout.

The turnout fell in the 2001 election that was effectively a referendum on Giuliani’s policies by Bloomberg, versus another liberal Democrat, was at over 40%.

So no, this isn’t a mandate.

Putting together 1 million votes in a city whose Muslim settler population is somewhere below 1 million (most estimates are dubious) and whose leftist population is certainly in that range is not a big deal.

The opposition didn’t put together enough votes. Everything rested on turnout and with the Muslim settler population and the leftist TikTok voters and college students, Mamdani had a cushion that was hard to beat.

It’s not a mandate. It’s colonization and apathy.

2. Socialism Didn't Win. Social Media Hype Did.

Two mayoral elections in major cities with two candidates.

Both Omar Fateh and Zohran Mamdani followed the familiar AOC playbook of seizing their party’s nomination in low turnout primaries or in Fateh’s case, DFL conventions, against an established candidate.

Both were Islamists running on ‘free stuff’ and socialism.

Mamdani beat Cuomo in New York City while in Minneapolis, Jacob Frey appears to have defeated Fateh.

The difference didn’t come down to policies, it came down to social media hype.

Mamdani kept that fake smile up the entire time and painstakingly followed the ‘people’s struggle’ handbook of pretending he was representing some electorate other than fellow Muslims and leftists. Omar Fateh tried the same routine, but it doesn’t help that he looks like a fairy tale goblin.

Smiling only gets you so far when you look like you’re about to demand that a fairy tale queen guess your name or you’ll make off with her daughter.

Mamdani mostly benefited from massive amounts of astroturfed social media hype.

We’ve seen the waves of fake hype for Obama before, not to mention other radical candidates like Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul, in which a small social media campaign by radicals pumps up a candidate that otherwise no one would care about. It only works when the candidate, like Obama, has enough charisma to front it. No amount of hype could make anyone make Bernie Sanders or Ron Paul president. And the hype wasn’t enough for the Minneapolis goblin.

Socialism is only a part of it. The radical candidates don’t really run on socialism. They run on hype aimed at low-information voters. Especially young ones. That worked for Mamdani, but you have to have the media training, the looks, the polish and the personality to make it happen.

Those can be manufactured.

Consider the difference between the pre-politics and post-politics Mamdani.

Would this guy, who looks like the neighborhood sex-offender, have won? Less likely.

And compare 2000 era Obama with the guy who eventually took over the party.

Mamdani didn’t win a policy debate. He won a personality contest.

And would Mamdani had even won if he were facing a single focused opponent instead of two aging narcissists from the past who spent half their time squabbling with each other? Much like the Obama era might have been averted if the GOP hadn't run a holdover from another era who got the nod because 'it was his turn'.

3. These elections weren't about the issues. They were about the economy.

The average voter cast ballots based on his or her perception of the state of things and a big part of that is the economy. Trump and Republicans had that going for them in 2024. They don’t in 2025 and they won’t in 2026.

This is an urgent reality check.

Yes, Republicans and conservatives will agonize that Virginia voters didn’t make their decision based on the Jay Jones death threats. It’s 2025. Moral qualifications for candidates are deader than Gary Hart (correction Gary is still alive) which is why Graham Platner is doing better than ever after the SS tattoo and the Communist declaration. There may be nothing too awful that a politician can do to be morally disqualified. People vote down party lines, they vote based on which party they think is screwing them harder, based on identity politics and just sheer ‘cussedness’.

Conservatives become complacent. These elections should be a dash of cold water. President Trump has done a lot of great things, but much of the country is still agonizing over prices, over the economy at ground level, and is not feeling good about the state of the nation. Unless that changes, not just Dems, but Islamists and the far Left will exploit the opportunity to take more positions, climb the political ladder and eventually take over the country.

We’re not safe. We’re in the middle of a war. The echo chambers have become too cozy and we’re seeing too many memes while losing sight of the battle.

There’s still time before 2026 and 2028. But only so much time..

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

Mamdani Will Be The Face of the Democrat Party!

By Robin Itzler

Editor's Note: This is a commentary in Robin's weekly newsletter Patriot Neighbors.  Any cartoons are added by me.  If you wish to get the full edition, E-mail her at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com to get on her list, it's free. RK 

 

We have frequently shared that it appears the GOP wants communist Muslim Zohran Mamdani to win New York City’s mayoral race so he would become the face of the Democrat party. After House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries finally endorsed the communist Mamdani, House Speaker Mike Johnson called the endorsement a “seismic shift in politics.”

Alex Hoffman, a Democratic strategist and donor adviser, told Politico: 

“If he (Mamdani) wins, this guarantees that he’s going to be the albatross that Fox News and the MAGA universe hangs around the Democratic neck for the foreseeable future. They will loop him with [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and Bernie and say the ‘radical left’ runs and owns the party even though they don’t speak for the rest of the party or the country.” 

• Zohran Sez He Will Defend Illegal Aliens’ Right to Live in NYC
• Mamdani’s Campaign Was Made in Pakistan
• The Pakistanification of New York: Zohran Mamdani’s Foreign Bloc Power Grab
• Antisemite Linda Sarsour Vows Pro-Jihadists Will Control Mamdani if He Wins NYC Mayoral Race
• Sadiq Khan Islamicized London… and Zohran Mamdani Is Worse Than Khan
• Socialism And The Demise Of The Democrat Party

New York Republican Representative Elise Stefanik is running for governor of the Empire State against incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul. It took a while, but Hochul finally endorsed Mamdani. You can bet all your MAGA hats that Stefanik will make sure Hochul owns everything Mamdani does.

Should Mamdani win—and we support Curtis Sliwa—how long before the Democrat party officially changes its logo?  

Rent Control

If government controls worked, Chicago would be the safest city in the nation as it has the most stringent gun control laws. Yet, every week people are murdered or injured since the bad guys carry guns—and use them.

Communists like Zohran Mamdani, Alexandria Cortez and Bernie Sanders think landlords are billionaires who own thousands of apartments charging obscene prices on poor, working– and middle-class people. In many instances, landlords own one or two properties, each with a few units. If commie Mamdani wins the mayoral race, New York’s government run rent control and rent stabilization is expected to result in many landlords letting even more apartments sit vacant rather than rent them at devalued rates where they don’t earn enough to maintain the unit or make a small profit. Others might sell the property which could be converted into a non-apartment structure.

Wait until the ignorant Mamdani supporters realize that raising taxes on property owners increases their rent!

If rent control worked, New York City would be one of the most reasonably priced rental cities in the United States. However, after decades of government involvement, that isn’t the case. Just as Chicago isn’t a safe city with its government gun control. How fast can you say, “Thank you, Democrats!” 

•  Mamdani’s Free Bus Scam Would Bring “Dangerous Homeless Shelters on Wheels” to NYC

Read The Unintended Consequences of Rent Control by Jen Sidorova

Mamdani Radicals

By Rich Kozlovich

Life is about patterns and circles. Patterns of behavior, and the social circles prompting that behavior. 

1. He’s a terror supporting Muslim.
2. A Marxist who never had a job.
3. He wants to confiscate the money from the doers and give it to the non doers.
4. Are we’re surprised he’s also a liar? 

I’m shocked…. shocked I tell you. 

If a politician supports corruption, they are corrupt. Once corruption sets in, there are no boundaries.  There is no misunderstanding Mamdani. 

First, definition leads to clarity and the distance between communism and Islam is skin deep. While communism is foundationally atheistic, atheism isn’t a requirement to accept the concepts of communism, and Islam embraces all the foundational values of communism.  Central planning, total economic and social control by a few over everyone else, lack of concern about individual rights, censorship, all predicated on the moral foundation of hate, greed, envy, lust, and violence. 

Secondly, while his election as mayor is considered a shoo it, which initially I agreed with, but time and circumstance befall us all.... and now ….. that may not be that sure.  His numbers are dropping and Cuomo’s are rising, but Cuomo is really disliked in New York, and I wouldn’t be surprised if all these polls, which I stopped believing in decades ago, are all wrong. 

Sliwa may well be a dark horse winner, as it’s being reported that over 70% of the people polled are undecided.   If that’s true, then what’s that mean?  If might well mean they’re secret Sliwa supporters, since it’s well documented people lie to pollsters. 

Here are articles I've been saving as source pieces.  While not in chronological order, they're enlightening, which confirm what I've said in My Mamdani Articles.

So, take some time and .... "enjoy".   

1. FBI Agent John Guandolo Explains Islam in Under 3 Minutes
2. Zohran Mamdani’s Mother Says He Is 'Not an American at All' in Resurfaced Interview 
3. Beyond mere hypocrisy: the real Zohran Mamdani revealed
4. GOP Moves to Revoke Zohran Mamdani’s Citizenship
5. Obama Calls Mamdani to Praise His Campaign and Offers to Be Sounding Board  
6. Islamic Extremist Network Supporting Mamdani Raises Alarm 
7. Mamdani Incites Muslim Rage and Resentment Against the United States
8. Muslim Candidates Threaten Violence in U.S.
9. Mamdani’s Terror Mosque Called for Taking Over America.....
10. The Shadow of Terror: Zohran Mamdani’s Radical Islam Problem
11. Zohran Mamdani’s $5 Billion Corporate Tax Hike Threatens NYC’s Status as the World’s Financial Capital
12. Zohran Mamdani's Tangled Web of Islamophobia Lies Just Got Messier 
13. What Would the "Falling Man" Think of Mandami's "Aunt"?
14. Mamdani’s hijabbed aunt who feared going out in NYC after 9/11 doesn’t wear hijab, lived in Tanzania 2000-2003
15. Mamdani Sez Aunt He Claimed Was Victim of 9/11 over Fear of Wearing Hijab Is ‘Father’s Cousin’
16. Zohran Mamdani Says That Muslims Were Hit Hard After 9/11
17. Mamdani’s False Charge of Israeli ‘Apartheid’
18. AOC Rallies for Mamdani: ‘They Want Us to Think We Are Crazy — We Are Sane
19.  ‘Mayor’ Zohran Mamdani Says if Trump Goes After Illegal Aliens in NYC He’ll Have to Go Through Him 
20. ‘Conservative’ Bill Kristol Endorses Socialist Mamdani
21.  10 Rabbis Confront Mamdani Over His Role in Fanning Flames of Anti-Semitism

Finally, if you like this: New York: Muslima on bus rants ‘F*ck you, dirty Jew… You f*cking Jew b*tch… I’m gonna slap you…’, you're really gonna love NYC if Mamdani is elected.  

Defund Mamdani

October 26, 2025 By Robin M. Itzler @ American Thinker

Unless freedom-loving New Yorkers, especially those who can’t easily move to red cities, vote for Curtis Sliwa on November 4, they will bear witness to the Big Apple becoming the Rotten Apple.

Polls show that Gen Zers living in their parents’ basements are excitedly going to vote for the AOC-endorsed communist Zohran “free stuff” Mamdani. Should Mamdani win, drastic changes could start with the New York Police Department.

This is the largest police department in the United States, with nearly 34,000 uniformed officers, but it is still understaffed. Proud men and women in blue with 20 or more years of service are expected to submit their retirement papers should Mamdani be elected. These dedicated officers will not want to work for a mayor who tweeted on October 23, 2020, “We need to elect a socialist city council to defund the NYPD.”

Bill Bratton, who was police commissioner for mayors Rudy Giuliani, a Republican, and Bill de Blasio, a progressive Democrat, said in an interview:

There will be a very significant exodus from the NYPD very soon after his (Mamdani) election, if he is elected. They’re going to leave. And that’s a reality.

During the campaign, the smooth-talking communist tried to walk back many of his anti-police comments and tweets. Finally, Mamdani issued an apology that sounded as sincere as Joe Biden endorsing Kamala Harris for president.

Mamdani, like all communists, lies.

New York Post reporters Vaughn Golden and Craig McCarthy wrote that Mamdani’s top campaign staffer, Robert Akleh, was caught in several undercover videos saying of law enforcement officers, “Who gives a s**t what cops think of Mamdani?”

Akleh went on to add (all on video) about police officers who risk their lives every day to protect New Yorkers: “They’re city employees. You get told what to do, shut up. When did you get an opinion?”

Akleh is Mamdani’s senior consultant. He has previously worked for Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) candidates Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and former Representative Jamaal Bowman. What else do you need to know? In the taped conversations, Akleh also dumped on New York Governor Kathy Hochul, “Israel supporting” Democrats, and his disgust for wealthy people. (We assume he really means white wealthy people and not rich Muslims like Mamdani.)

Every New Yorker who cares about the city must get out and vote for Curtis Sliwa, the Guardian Angels founder who has devoted his entire life to making the city a safer place for people to live and work. Otherwise, historians will pinpoint November 4 as the exact day New York City became a third-world “utopia” cesspool. (Some say it already is.)

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani endorsed Curtis Sliwa for mayor of New York City. In his X podcast, Giuliani said, “Curtis Sliwa has been a hero for New York from the time...he was born [snip] Here’s my choice: 100 percent Curtis Sliwa.”

As noted above, should Mamdani win, it is expected that officers with more than 20 years on the force will submit their retirement papers. Those with less than 20 years could be forced to seek work elsewhere since they rely on overtime to make ends meet, and Mamdani has repeatedly said he wants to reduce the NYPD’s overtime. There are three NYPD groups that greatly depend on overtime pay:

• Officers with fewer than five years on the job because their starting pay is low for an expensive city.
• Officers with five to ten years on the job who earn more but are likely to have family expenses.
• Officers seeking to boost their income in their final years to receive higher pensions.

In New York City, a starting officer’s annual salary is $60,884. After five-and-a-half years, they earn $126,410. A family of four requires just over $318,000 to live comfortably. NYPD salaries are not that high, considering what it costs to call New York home. It’s overtime that gives police officers the income they need in expensive New York City.

However, comrade Mamdani has made it clear he wants to bring down the NYPD’s overtime. In February, he told the New York Editorial Board, a group of veteran journalists, “We need to bring down the NYPD’s near-billion-dollar overtime. We need to eliminate that overtime.”

In 2024, the NYPD spent $1.1 billion on overtime wages, and this year, it appears the overtime payments will exceed the budget by $100 million.

Curtis Sliwa is the only mayoral candidate who knows every inch of the city and has spent his entire life seeking to make it safer for those who live and work in the five boroughs. This is why, in addition to multiple Republican endorsements, Sliwa has received glowing endorsements from current and former Democrat officeholders who care more about New York City than party.

Comrade Mamdani supporters who excitedly plan to vote for the communist are enthusiastic about free this, free that, free everything. However, with fewer police officers protecting them, the only thing that might be free in New York City will be crime sprees.

Robin M. Itzler is a regular contributor to American Thinker. She is the founder and editor of Patriot Neighbors, a free weekly national newsletter. Robin can be reached at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com.

Related Topics: Zohran Mamdani, Police, New York City

The New York Times And The Approaching New York Mayoral Election

October 23, 2024 By Francis Menton @ Manhattan Contrarian 

In the early days of this blog — say, prior to about 2020 — I made a regular sport of heaping scorn on the New York Times. Every week or two I would take a particularly preposterous article and attempt to analyze whether it represented incomprehensible ignorance of the world versus intentional deception of the readership. Or maybe both! More recently, the Times has gotten so crazy, and the craziness so widely recognized, as rarely to justify such an effort on my part.

But then, sometimes I can’t stop myself. Take today’s Times.

As background, yesterday was the occasion of the last televised debate in the three-way mayoral race among Zohran Mamdani (Democrat), Andrew Cuomo (Independent) and Curtis Sliwa (Republican). Election Day is only 12 days away, and early voting starts in two days. If you go to the New York Post, you will find that the front page and several internal pages are devoted to coverage of the debate, including key soundbites from all candidates. That seems about normal to me. The Post’s take is that Cuomo had a good night, and Mamdani not so good, which you can take for what it’s worth (given that the Post is strongly supporting Cuomo at this point). Here is the Post’s cover from today:

 

And then there is the Times. I continue to subscribe to the print edition. I have gone through today’s edition multiple times to verify that the following statement is true: There is not one word about the debate. There is not even a mention that it took place.

Now granted, in this internet age the print edition no longer represents the totality of content at the Times. So I have gone through the website as well, looking not only for information about the debate, but anything about the campaign. First, I go to the opening page at www.nytimes.com, where my subscription gets me behind the paywall. Then I scroll way, way down — past Weather, and past More News, and past Culture and Lifestyle, and past The Athletic, and past Cooking, and past Games, and finally I come to an area called “News,” which among multiple other topics has three articles under a heading of “New York.” One of those is about gambling and the NBA, one is about an ICE raid on Canal Street, and the third has the headline “After Remark About Mamdani and Sept. 11, Cuomo Faces Democratic Rebukes.” This article also mentions nothing about the debate; and indeed the event reported in this story occurred this morning, and thus could not have been covered in today’s print edition. It seems that Cuomo appeared on a radio talk show hosted by conservative host Sid Rosenberg. The Times reports the exchange as follows:

Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo laughed along with a conservative radio host on Thursday who said that Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim mayoral candidate, would celebrate another Sept. 11-style terrorist attack on New York City. Within hours, the exchange ricocheted across the campaign trail, where Mr. Mamdani and a cross-section of Democrats denounced the conversation as Islamophobic and outside the bounds of even a heated campaign.

The Times then proceeds to quote a litany of Democrats who are horrified and take the opportunity to cast Cuomo as an “Islamophobe.”

If you click the link and read this article, and make it all the way to the end, you will find a section headed “More on the N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race.” And in there is a link to this article: “N.Y.C. Mayoral Candidates Trade Zingers in Final Debate.” So yes, it does exist. I wonder how many people other than myself had the persistence to find it.

But getting back to the front page of today’s print edition, what we do find is a lengthy (some might say endless) puff piece about Mamdani’s days in high school, including the seminal moments of his political career running for class vice president: “How an Elite Public High School Set Mamdani on the Path to Politics. Zohran Mamdani’s time at the Bronx High School of Science expanded and helped shape his views of New York, from the cricket pitch to politics.” Here’s a good sample:

Cricket had never been recognized as an official sport in New York City’s public schools. Mr. Mamdani, like many South Asian schoolmates who had grown up around the game, wanted in anyway. And so, he and a friend effectively created a team themselves, with all the logistical fortitude available to distractible adolescents, amassing a cache of bats, pads and player sign-ups (“brown ain’t no requirement to play this game,” Mr. Mamdani urged on Facebook) and working to persuade enough students and adults that they were fronting a legitimate operation.

Just an innocent, enthusiastic, hard-working kid! And he promised free orange juice for all!

(Should I mention that my mother-in-law spent her career teaching at Bronx Science? She retired about 10 years before Mamdani got there.)

Getting back to what is actually on the front page of today’s Times, the biggest article in terms of real estate on the page has the headline “Pro-Palestine Activists Lament the Steep Cost.” (Slightly different headline online.). It’s all so sad:

For a time, the Gaza protests seemed to have the ingredients to grow into the next mass political movement for young Americans. The cause — which adherents saw as a struggle between a marginalized and dispossessed people and an oppressive global power — connected with university students, many of whom were already drifting to the left and had experienced their political awakenings during the racial reckoning in the summer of 2020. Many of them, in fact, started calling the Palestinian suffering “the moral issue of our time.”

And then, somehow, the American people just wouldn’t go along. It’s so inexplicable!

The other item taking up a big chunk of page 1 real estate is a picture of some activists gathering on an iceless King William Island in far-northern Canada to lament that global warming is making the Arctic more accessible to unwanted outsiders.

You get the picture. It’s not just that each article is more absurd than the next. It’s that none of them contain any actual useful information. They are all just the latest spin to promote one left-wing cause or another.

I apologize to the readers for continuing to spend money on this, but every once in a while it is useful to this blog to consult the Times to understand what the official party line of the left is on some particular subject.

Mamdani Will Unleash Violence Against Women

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

 

There have been over 1,600 rapes, 2,000 sexual assaults with penetration and over 4,300 sex crimes as part of a staggering wave of assaults so far this year in New York City.

Total rapes were up 42% in just the past week, and as an exclusive FPM+ report titled ‘New Rape City’ revealed, are up as high as 300% in some parts of the city. And it’s getting worse.

In the middle of this shocking wave of sexual assaults, Zohran Mamdani, the socialist candidate currently ahead in the mayoral election, has offered proposals tailor-made to sex offenders.

Critics had already warned that Mamdani’s pro-crime proposals, including having social workers rather than cops respond to domestic violence calls, will enable further violence against women.

Mamdani’s proposal to free half of the criminals being held at Riker’s Island that called for exempting from prison those sex predators charged with sexual misconduct, forcible touching, as well as sexual abuse in the second and third degrees, and early release for sex abusers.

Additional details in the Mamdani endorsed proposals sought to release larger numbers of violent felons including rapists to pour fuel on the city’s already critical sexual assault crisis.

Why does Zohran Mamdani want to enable rapists, predators and domestic abusers?

Even in politics, Zohran Mamdani has a history of relationships with sex predators including those who prey on minors. In 2021, Mamdani hailed Matthew Thomas, a Democratic Socialists of America member who served as his Communications Director, who six years earlier had been charged for “sexual solicitation of a child” alongside a deputy to Joe Biden’s son.

Mamdani tweeted that Thomas “was a big part of why we won.”

And long before he ran for public office, Mamdani told a revealing story about the protests against the Muslim Brotherhood terror regime in Egypt. “Many women at the protest, and at protests in the days ahead,” he wrote in his college paper “had to contend with the very real threat of sexual harassment and assault, especially at night” but while he considered volunteering, he decided that “the last thing Egyptians needed was a well-meaning foreigner’s assistance.” The sexual assaults were often more like gang rapes and one of the victims was Lara Logan, then a mainstream media correspondent, but Mamdani didn’t want to get involved.

While Mamdani decided he didn’t want to ‘interfere’ to protect anti-Brotherhood protesters, he described increasingly being identified by others with the Muslim Brotherhood ruling movement. The same movement that created Hamas, played a major role in Al Qaeda and dominates Islamist movements, including the ones enabling his candidacy, in the United States. It’s the same movement on whose behalf he rallied protesters after the Oct 7 attacks. Mamdani refuses to condemn Hamas, including its sexual assaults, and won’t even call on it to disarm.

Egypt has a sexual harassment rate in the high 90s and high rates of violence against women. Mamdani seems all too comfortable with enabling the growth of a similar culture here even while phrasing the transformation in the familiar terms of social justice discourse.

When Zohran Mamdani didn’t want to interfere with Muslim gang rapes in Egypt or domestic violence in New York City (a behavior that Islam mandates) and wants to free sex offenders from custody, it’s always phrased as if the perpetrators, Egyptian rapists, Muslim wife-beaters or illegal alien sex predators, are the victims of an unfair system. But what’s really unfair is that women, girls and other victims can’t count on law enforcement to protect them.

And that’s because pro-crime radicals like Mamdani always side with the perpetrators.

“A key reason we have to make the bus free is that it reduces assaults on bus drivers,” Zohran Mamdani recently suggested. How would Mamdani like to reduce assaults on women?

Mamdani has failed to address New York City’s rising sexual assault crisis, but if he did, it would be invariably in the language of ‘restorative justice’ which always asks us to understand the point of view of the criminal, not the victim, whether it’s a bus driver or a rape victim.

An article in the same publication from which Mamdani garnered his proposal to free half the criminals in New York City’s most notorious prison proposed documenting the “complex relationships between crime victims and the individuals who caused them harm” and seeking “wherever possible, support reparative work such as restitution or mediation” between the victim and her attacker.

When Zohran Mamdani first ran for office, he championed “ restorative justice approaches” like these in which attackers, instead of going to prison, go to a chat session with a therapist and perhaps the victim.

At a pro-Hamas rally, Zohran Mamdani quoted Mariame Kaba. As he does so often. Kaba is known as the “godmother of police defunding” who wrote a New York Times op-ed headlined, “Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police” and proposed getting rid of prisons entirely.

As New York City suffers under a wave of sexual assaults, the personal experience of applying restorative justice to rape by the activist whom Mamdani cites almost more than any other is instructive as to what the women and girls of the city could expect under his idea of justice.

When a community organizer in a BLM-style group assaulted a sexual assault educator after telling her that “sexual violence prevention was something he was really passionate about”, Mariame Kaba was brought in to lead a “restorative process” to show how it would work.

And predictably the rapist went on raping.

“In the coming months and years after our process ended, other people came forward to share their own stories of sexual harm involving Malcolm,” Kaba admitted.

“After a year and a half long accountability process, Malcolm made the choice to continue raping Black women,” his victim complained. “The process had many goals, but the main hope was that at the very least Malcolm wouldn’t rape anyone else.”

But that’s how ‘restorative justice’ works. Or doesn’t. Depending on your point of view.

New York City, already suffering under a wave of sexual assaults due to pro-crime legislation which frees sex offenders to continue offending, would see the situation worsen a good deal.

And while women and girls are the leading targets, they would not be the only ones.

Mohammed Azeem called a man on a Manhattan subway train “cute” before sexually assaulting him. The obese Muslim predator taunted police and reporters as he was taken away. He had been previously charged with another form of sexual misconduct on public transportation.

Mohammed is currently being held at Riker’s Island on charges of rape and sexual abuse, but if Mamdani has his way, he may soon be free.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

Keep New York City From Becoming New Marx City

October 10, 2025 By Robin M. Itzler

If you’re in New York or would like to donate to a New York mayoral candidate, there’s only one serious candidate who hasn’t caused thousands to die (that would be Andrew Cuomo) and isn’t allied to a political ideology that has historically caused tens of millions of people to die (i.e., Zohran Mamdani). The man who should win, of course, is Curtis Sliwa.

Americans who follow elections will carefully search their ballot to find the candidate of their choice. According to several studies, almost everyone else focuses on the top two or three names and selects the candidate from their party. Positioning on a ballot matters...a lot!

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The New York City Board of Elections has announced the order in which candidates will appear on the November 4 ballot. Note that two leading candidates are listed twice, and, although Eric Adams and Jim Walden dropped out, they remain listed on the ballot. Also, two candidates no one ever heard of (nor raised money or campaigned) are listed ahead of Andrew Cuomo.

• Zohran Kwame Mamdani—Democrat Party
• Curtis A. Sliwa—Republican Party
• Irene Estrada—Conservative Party (Raised little money and has not done any campaigning.)
• Zohran Kwame Mamdani—Working Families Party (aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America Party)
• Curtis A. Sliwa—Protect Animals Party
• Eric L. Adams—Safe & Affordable/End Anti-Semitism Party (Under New York’s rules, his name remains on the ballot although he has dropped out.)
• Joseph Hernandez—Quality of Life candidate (Raised little money and has not done any campaigning.)
• Andrew M. Cuomo—Fight and Deliver Party, former Democrat governor
• Jim Walden – Integrity Party (Under New York’s rules, his name remains on the ballot although he has dropped out.)

According to a UC San Diego report published in December 2024, New York City ranked 49th for turnout among U.S. major cities. New York City is comprised of five boroughs: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island, with the island being the most conservative. (Personal note: Robin was born in Brooklyn, raised in Queens, and married and lived one year on Staten Island before she and her husband moved to California, once worked in Manhattan across from St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and skipped the Bronx except when driving up to the beautiful Catskill Mountains. She knows New York City.)

The City, an online site focusing on New York issues, analyzed the 2021 mayoral race that elected Eric Adams:

Of the more than 4.9 million active registered voters for the general election that year, only 1.147 million cast votes, according to the CFB data. That’s just 23% of eligible city dwellers who actually exercised their right to vote.

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Manhattan had the highest voter turnout during the 2021 primary, with 33.4%. The highest voter turnout in the general election, though, was the Republican stronghold Staten Island, with 33.7% voting.

The borough with the lowest turnout for the primary and the general was The Bronx — 19.1% came out in June and 17.5% voted in November. Brooklyn’s primary turnout was 27.5%, and Queens had 25%; their general turnout were both above 22%.

The excitement for the communist Muslim Mamdani comes from the downwardly mobile—those who want others to pay for their basic needs. Should the communist win, New York City (like other blue cities) will see the rich and middle-class leave. It’s been happening in the Big Apple for decades and will accelerate.

In 1965, 128 Fortune 500 firms were headquartered in New York City. Today, it’s about 50 firms. Texas boasts 54 Fortune 500 companies, and Florida has 22. There are many memes of Florida calling Mamdani ‘realtor of the year.’

New Yorkers should rally around Curtis Sliwa. After all, when you think of someone who repeatedly stands up for New York’s working and middle-class residents, Sliwa’s name is among the first that comes to mind. He founded the now international Guardian Angels to protect New Yorkers when no one else cared – sort of how things are today. Every borough’s Republican Party has endorsed Sliwa, along with the Rockland County GOP. Former Republican New York Governor George Pataki was one of Sliwa’s earliest endorsements.

Sliwa’s campaign is projecting its strongest fundraising stretch so far, reporting more than $421,000 raised in the last filing period. Moreover, he is gaining endorsements from both sides of the aisle. For instance, Democrat Assembly Member Jamie Williams and Democrat Council Member Robert Holden have endorsed the Republican Sliwa. Holden touts the Guardian Angels founder’s “decades of public service and straight talk.” He adds,

He (Sliwa) built the Guardian Angels into a global public safety force. He has walked the streets, ridden the subways, and stood with victims when no one else would. His campaign has grassroots support, a serious platform, and the toughness to govern.

Why would anyone want former New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo, famous for “murdering” elderly nursing home residents during the “scamdemic?” Speaking on The View on October 6, Andrew Cuomo focused on...President Trump:

Mamdani is a gift for him (President Trump) — a gift. He wants Mamdani, for two reasons. One, going into the midterms, he will take a picture of Mamdani, run around the country and say, ‘Here is what happened to the Democrats. They are now communists, they hate the police, they legalize prostitution, legalize drugs, they want to elect this Democrat, no experience whatsoever — being mayor of New York would be his first real job.

At this point, the only debate is whether Mamdani is a socialist or a communist. Ayn Rand explained the difference:

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

Cuomo’s ballot position, at the bottom behind someone who didn’t campaign and who has no name recognition, is going to hurt him. The choice is now between a communist who has a platform to the left of Karl Marx and a man who has spent his entire life trying to make New York City a place where people can safely live and work. New Yorkers should elect Curtis Sliwa.

Click here for an AI-generated: Commietown – The Musical. Sliwa’s campaign site is here.

Robin M. Itzler is a regular contributor to American Thinker. She is the founder and editor of Patriot Neighbors, a free weekly national newsletter. Robin can be reached at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com.

Mamdani Wants to Free Half of Criminals

There are too many criminals in prison and Mamdani wants to let half of them out.

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog 

There are too many criminals in prison and Mamdani wants to let half of them out.

Mamdani complained that the Adams administration had increased the number of criminals in Rikers Island by a thousand and claimed that “we can reduce that jail population to less than four thousand”. The infamous New York City prison has around 7,000 criminals on average and Mamdani cited a pro-crime proposal to reduce the number in there to only 3,700 criminals.

That would mean freeing some 3,300 or 47%, nearly half, of the criminals there.

Pro-crime policies such as eliminating bail already put most criminals back on the street almost as soon as they’re arrested. The limited number of criminals still being remanded are the worst of the worst. After years of being fed sob stories about shoplifters going to Rikers, Mamdani and the pro-crime activists trying to free half the criminals from Rikers aren’t even pretending.

Mamdani cited an article by an activist from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, once a fine institution that produced capable people, but that has become an academic hub for pro-crime activism.

Its proposals for cutting the Rikers population in half include no bail for first arrests “even in serious violent felony cases”, freeing three-quarters of criminals “facing violent felony charges”, exempting from prison those charged with a list of sentences that covers sexual misconduct, forcible touching, as well as sexual abuse in the second and third degrees, mandatory pre-trial release of criminals after a certain period, more early release for a variety of offenders including those who have committed assault and sexual abuse, and releasing criminals “who really do pose a flight risk” but offering them “employment assistance” to keep them from running away.

What is abundantly clear is that there is no way to significantly reduce the violent criminal population at Rikers without freeing violent criminals including some of the worst ones.

46% of the criminals at Rikers Island were charged with a violent felony.

After a decade of pro-crime policies and the mass jailbreaks of the COVID and BLM era, the only ones still in Rikers are the truly dangerous. The prison is full of repeat offenders, criminals who have committed horrifying acts against the public and the violently disturbed madmen.

And those are the ones whom Mamdani is proposing to set loose.

Past pro-crime proposals pretended that the only ones who would be released would be the misleadingly named “non-violent offenders” (in reality, the so-called non-violent offenders are often violent criminals who are being ‘charged down’ and have had violent crimes defined down to manufacture the illusion that crime is lower than it really is), but that’s no longer on the table.

Mamdani’s cited proposal has two separate sections that explicitly mention freeing violent criminals and several others that implicitly require mass releases of dangerous criminals.

The proposal endorsed by Mamdani as a strategy for clearing out the prisons complains that judges released only a quarter of criminals facing violent felony charges (murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault) while keeping around half in custody. It sneers at the “people’s perceived (and often misperceived) risk to public safety” when it comes to letting violent criminals loose.

What’s the actual risk?

Over the last 28 day period in New York City, murder is up 19%, rape is up 38.9%, the number of shooting victims is up 36%.

Crime, despite all the political pro-crime narratives, is getting worse. And people know it.

A majority of New Yorkers say that crime has gotten worse since 2020 and BLM riots. 70% want more police officers and most want an end to revolving door arrests and to see bail come back because “too many people are being arrested and immediately released into the streets where they commit violent crimes”. 61% oppose the general plan to close Rikers Island that was championed in the report cited by Mamdani and by the pro-crime lobby in general.

No polling has been done on the specifics of freeing half the criminals in Rikers, including many violent felons, but the public is unlikely to be in favor of such a mass jailbreak.

Even though a majority fear being the victim of a crime, Mamdani laughs at the idea of restoring public safety and bringing back a functional criminal justice system to New York City. “What purpose” does prison serve, Mamdani asked in one conversation, suggesting that people defend what the pro-crime lobby calls ‘the carceral state’ or the prison system “because of the way it makes them feel.”

The purpose served by the prison system is keeping criminals off the street. Earlier this year, a monster with 70 prior arrests, including smashing a 2-year-old girl in the face with a suitcase, smashed a woman’s head against a pole in the subway. The NYPD commissioner revealed that the crime wave was driven by repeat offenders arrested three or more times for the same crime.

What will those numbers look like if Mamdani frees a prison half full of violent criminals?

Murders and rapes are already up over the summer. Some lower category offenses appear to be down, but that’s only because they’re no longer being reported or charged. But the real crime wave is still coming. Every previous mass release of criminals has made New York City more dangerous and less safe. But the release of the worst of the worst may soon be coming.

And the price will be paid by children playing in parks, by tourists stopping to see the sights, by random people crossing the streets and by the most vulnerable, women, children and the elderly, being terrorized by the worst monsters who used to be kept locked away in prison.

Closing Rikers Island and freeing violent criminals will make New York City into Rikers as the city becomes one big prison in which the criminals are free and everyone else is locked up.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

Mamdani and the Muslim Invasion of New York

By Daniel Greenfield, @ Sultan Knish Blog

In 2023, Mohammed made its appearance on the list of the top 10 most popular names for boys in New York City. Anyone paying attention to this seemingly minor statistic could have predicted the emergence of Zohran Mamdani as the Democrat nominee in the upcoming mayoral election.

Mohammed had appeared as the sixth most common baby among ‘Asians’ in New York City in 2013. By 2017, the name of the genocidal warlord of Islam had become the most common baby name among ‘Asians’ in the city. The rapid growth showed the power of demographics.

Nearly 300 Mohammeds (under various spellings) were born in New York City in 2021 accompanied by over 150 Ahmeds, and dozens of Alis, Omars, Adnans and many others.

The Muslim population of New York City is still undetermined. While Islamist groups claim that there are over 1 million Muslims, they tend to exaggerate to build up their influence, but a Pew survey estimated Muslim settlers as making up 3% of the population of New York City.

Mamdani only won the votes of 5% of the population of New York City. That’s within 2% of the estimated Muslim population of the city. Whatever the actual size of the Muslim population of the city may be, it was more than enough to make the difference in a mayoral primary that few New Yorkers bothered to vote in because they found all the candidates repugnant even while mosques successfully turned out the bloc vote to rig an election for their candidate.

Mamdani was not a popular candidate, but he toured the city’s mosques and told the members of one Hamas-supporting mosque that this is “an opportunity — to tell the world that Muslims don’t just belong in New York City but that we belong in City Hall.”

That message, delivered in a mosque, combined tribal nationalism and Islamism.

How many mosques are there in the city? There were 285 in 2015. Some current estimates place the number at over 500 now. While Islamist groups do build mosques that they don’t need and can’t fill in order to build up influence with projects like the Ground Zero Mosque and other mosques in Manhattan (which unlike Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, does not have a significant Muslim population below 125th Street) they reflect a growing Muslim population.

The vast majority of that growth happened after 9/11. The old Arab Muslim population which cheered on the rooftops after the September 11 attacks and was responsible for pre 9/11 terrorist attacks like the World Trade Center bombing mainly lived in New Jersey and parts of Brooklyn are a minority now with the massive influx of Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and other Muslims from the vicinity of India colonizing the city.

One of the most important things to understand about Zohran Mamdani is that he isn’t just a Muslim, but he’s an Indian Muslim. His rise reflects the growing numbers of Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Indian Muslims who have taken over entire neighborhoods in the city.

There are an estimated 100,000 Bangladeshis occupying parts of New York City. From around 35,000 in 2010, the colonizing population rapidly increased, taking over parts of Queens, once home to middle class Greek, Italian and Jewish populations, but now Mamdani territory.

The Queens district that Mamdani used as a springboard to seize power in New York had formerly been held by Aravella Simotas, a fairly typical representative of the next generation of old school Democrats, before being ousted by Mamdani using Muslim bloc votes.

On paper, both Simotas, a child of a Greek-American family who had lived in Africa, and Mamdani, the son of Indian Muslims also out of Africa, were both young ‘progressive’ Democrats who had all the right left-wing positions. Mamdani was backed by the Democratic Socialists of America while Simotas was backed by the Queens Democratic Party.

There was virtually no difference between their actual positions forcing Mamdani to adopt increasingly insane leftist positions that are now coming back to haunt him to stand out..

“I’ve worked with Aravella, and I’m not quite sure how you could be more left-leaning than she is,” a councilwoman said.

Simotas had lived her whole life in Queens while Mamdani, who had been living in Manhattan, wasn’t even from Queens but had moved there for the election. Why Queens? According to Mamdani, he moved to the area because he liked the Muslim population already there.

Mamdani had moved into Queens to run in a Muslim district against a fellow leftist Dem.

The 2020 Democrat primary came down to a narrow victory for Mamdani at 51.20% over 48.62% by a margin of around 400 votes. That began Mamdani’s career in politics.

Mamdani’s victory was part of a larger pattern.

Even while Mamdani used Muslim votes to seize control of District 36, ‘Mary’ Jobaida, a Bangladeshi Muslim immigrant, tried to take control of Assembly District 37 also in Queens. Jobaida, like Mamdani, ran on a hard left social justice platform, but still lost. She now wants to run for Mamdani’s seat if he takes over City Hall.

In Assembly District 24, David Weprin, who is Jewish, has been the target of repeated Muslim candidates running on leftist platforms including Misbaah Mahmood, Mahfuzul Islam and Mahtab Khan: an anti-Israel Islamic activist running on the slogan “Tax the Rich”.

Mamdani’s rise reflects a larger Islamic campaign in President Trump and David Horowitz’s former neighborhood.

In 2019, I warned that Queens was becoming ‘Queensistan” after describing the rise of Islamic terrorism and colonization in the borough. “Grand Central Parkway, where Awais Chudhary, the latest Islamic terrorist operating out of Queens, planned to drop bombs on passing cars, passes a few blocks from President Trump’s childhood home. There are 5 Islamic centers within a little over a mile of where Trump had grown up.” Now Queenistan has given us Mamdani.

And that’s not the end. Mamdani is a symptom of a larger crisis. Demographics is destiny and Muslim mass migration is proving a much greater threat to New York City than hijacked airplanes.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

Whitewashing Zohran Mamdani’s Socialism at the New York Times

September 7, 2025 by Dan Mitchell @ International Liberty

When I wrote about New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani a few months ago, here was my main takeaway.

Mamdani is an AOC-style hard-core leftist who wants to travel in the wrong direction as far and as fast as Javier Milei is traveling in the right direction.

When asked to elaborate, I sometimes dig into the archives and pull out my 2015 statism spectrum.

 

Looking at those options, my best guess is that he would position New York City somewhere between Mexico and China.

In other words, New York City would go downhill, perhaps turning into Caracas-on-the-Hudson or something like that.

 

Another option is to look at my 2×2 matrix from 2016, which I think does a better job of differentiating between different types of statism.

And that matrix does include Venezuela, which is quite appropriate since that’s my guess for what Mamdani’s agenda ultimately would produce.

But is he technically a socialist, i.e., someone who believes in government ownership, central planning, and price controls?

Based on his own words, the answer is yes.

But some people at the New York Times have a different perspective. According to a column by Jeffery Mays, Mamdani isn’t really a socialist.

I’m not joking. Here are some excerpts.

 

Mr. Mamdani…is a democratic socialist, which means his beliefs are similar to those of socialists but not exactly the same. …Here’s a breakdown of how socialism and democratic socialism work, and where Mr. Mamdani fits in. …Socialism is a doctrine that calls for public control of property and natural resources. …There are different types of socialism and different ideas about the extent of public ownership of property and whether those assets should be controlled via a centralized authority or if more decisions should be made at the local level. … 

Mr. Mamdani, a state assemblyman, has based his campaign on making New York City more affordable, vowing to make buses free and extending free child care, among other similar proposals. …Mr. Mamdani’s plan to pay for his proposals borrows from a traditional Democratic method: increase taxes on the rich. He would also increase the top corporate tax rate, but has proposed nothing remotely close to a socialist-like takeover of private companies.

So we’re supposed believe Mamdani’s agenda is “nothing remotely close” to socialism.

Yet the article notes that Mamdani openly identifies as a socialist.

The New York City D.S.A. describes itself as a branch of the national group, which says it is the “largest socialist organization” in the country. Mr. Mamdani is a member of both. He joined the New York City D.S.A. around 2017… Mr. Mamdani’s stature was such that he spoke at the national D.S.A. convention in 2023. …In the State Legislature, he was part of the D.S.A.’s eight-member “Socialists in Office” group.

So how can Mr. Mays claim that Mamdani is not a socialist and that his agenda is not socialism?

I think the answer is that Mays wants Mamdani to win and he’s trying to make him seems like a run-of-the-mill Democrat so that voters won’t be afraid to vote for him.

And why do I think Mays has that bias?

In part because the article is trying to whitewash Mamdani’s radical agenda.

Butt I also think these two sentences are a clear giveaway. Mays actually wants readers to believe that socialism is for “the benefit of all members of society” and that it means “treating people more equitably.”

The control of resources is then directed toward the benefit of all members of society. …The closest Mr. Mamdani gets to socialism is in his belief in treating people more equitably.

The first sentence is nonsense. Socialism has always produced misery. The only recipe that has ever generated mass prosperity is free enterprise.

Though I suppose the second sentence technically might be true since almost all people are equally poor under socialism. But somehow I don’t think that’s what Mr. Mays is trying to say in the article.

Besides, socialism only treats 99 percent of the population “equitably.” There’s always a narrow slice of socialist leaders who live like kings and queens.

P.S. Since Mamdani comes from a wealthy and privileged background, he would obviously be part of the elite, the kind of person who is called a “limousine liberal” in the United States and a “champagne socialist” in the United Kingdom.

New York is the Symptom

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: 

At this point I've posted six article regarding Zohran Mamdani and the NYC mayors race:

1.  Is Zohran Mamdani Really the Anointed One? Part I
2.  Is Zohran Mamdani Really the Anointed One? Part II 
3.  Is Zohran Mamdani Really the Anointed One? Part III
4. Is Zohran Mamdani Really the Anointed One? Part IV
5.  Cartoon Roundup. Zohran Mamdani and The Fate of NYC
6. This Cartoon Roundup Tells You Everything You Need to Know About Zohran Mamdani

You would think after all the negative responses that would alter some of his most egregious views and plans.  But he's an ardent leftist, never had a job, has lived off his parents, and as are all leftists he's always sure, never right.  Here's a man who was born in Uganda and just seven years ago became an America citizen running at the head of the pack to become mayor of what had been called America's premier city.  A man who promotes globalized intifada. 

The intifada of course refers to uprising against Israel with violence something he wishes to spread here. Here lies the problem with Hijrah or Islamic migration. Hijrah is an Islamic term that proves that for Islamists and political Muslims, immigration is not simply a private choice but an act of Islamic conquest. As we see throughout the Western World Islamic migration has transformed Western counties for the worse. Mamdani would symbolize another victory for political Islam and its intifada over Western civilization.  ............... The rise of Mamdani along with Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib indicate the growth of political Islam here in America. 

On the left we're seeing immigrants being elected to Congress who've openly stated their true loyalties, in spite of the oath they took when sworn in, are to their countries of origin and/or to Islam. With all the negative response to all this  you would think his opponents would take a hard stand on immigration, but no, Mayor Adams says illegal immigrants ‘deserve’ tax benefits:

On Friday’s broadcast of Fox 5 New York’s “Good Day New York,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) discussed the federal lawsuit filed over the city’s sanctuary policy and stated that the policy is because “we must make sure that citizens or non-documents or whomevers that’s in the city get the services they deserve.” And if you buy something, you pay taxes and “when people use the term of sanctuary city, what we’re saying is that you have the right with your tax dollars to get the resources you deserve.”

They're here illegally, they're criminals, they're trespassers, they have no rights.  The only right they have to to be sent back to their countries of origin, and stop trying to turn America into the sewers they left. 

Mamdani wants to get rid of the police, although he's bounced around on that after the last New York shooting, but if elected he'll turn right around and work to destroy the New York's  police department, just as he's working to destroy capitalism, which go hand in hand.  

As  Robert Weissberg says, cops, not commissars brings affordability.  Creating a safe and stable environment is fundamental to bringing prices under control, and a stable economy, and that requires safety forces who are led by "another tough-on-crime Rudy Giuliani", not an everything-for-free Mamdani", or for that matter an Eric Adams, or an Andrew Cuomo, who wants more regulations on rent control rather than eliminating them   The alternative is Curtis Sliwa, and he's not going to get elected.

 Kim Ezra Shienbaum is asking: 

...........how we reached a point where lawlessness, anti-Americanism, and open sympathy for terrorists are not only tolerated but celebrated—and where mayoral candidates who would once have been considered “fringe” can win primaries in major cities. The answer?  Since the 1960s, the United States has undergone one of the most dramatic political rebrandings in modern history, particularly on the Left. The sixties radicals never disappeared. Their ideas, once considered extreme, have not only resurfaced, they’ve been rebranded.  Today, extremism is marketed to new generations as compassionate, inclusive, and enlightened, marching under the “progressive” banner and embraced by a growing bloc of post-9/11, college-educated voters.

NYC is doomed, right along with the rest of America's major cities.  The question that needs asked and answered is how will the nation fare?

Update, 12:23 PM. Zohran Mamdani, raking in six-figures a year as a ‘public servant,’ revealed to be taking advantage of rent subsidy, by Olivia Murray If his self-serving attitude weren’t clear enough before, now it’s blinding.

This Cartoon Roundup Tells You Everything You Need to Know About Zohran Mamdani

By Rich Kozlovich 

 

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and if that's true, and it largely is, here are 17,000 words that tells you all  you need to know about Mamdani.  Let's start with this quote from Dr. Michael Hurd. 

“Mamdani, a Ugandan-born state assemblyman from the New York City borough of Queens, is proposing to eliminate fares to ride New York City’s vast bus system, making CUNY (City University of New York) “tuition-free,” freezing rents on municipal housing, offering “free childcare” for children up to age 5, and setting up government-run grocery stores." 

"Brilliant. Why not just make everything free? Why hasn’t anyone ever thought of this before? How blessed New York City residents are. Their lives are about to become effortless, carefree. Utopia is coming. All this and Islam too — almost too much joy to contain." - Dr. Michael Hurd

  

He's a defund the police enthusiast yet had armed guards at his wedding, and now that there's been a mass shooting he's praising "first responders".  Now that the public is outraged over this shooting he's had an epiphany... an epiphany mind you....Zohran Mamdani now loves the police, and in spite of all his historical anti-police rhetoric calling them "racists and a threat to public safety", his new found appreciation for the police is truly heartfelt and not just politics!  Right?  You do believe that don't you?  

1. Zohran Mamdani Hires Private Security After Calling to Defund Police 
2. Mamdani Wants Cops to Stop Responding to Attacks on Jews 

So "don't worry, be happy".  Except that might not be possible since if Mamdani is elected and implements his insane schemes, Gotham will burn to the ground.

       

   

  

  

 

• My Socialist Mayor - I live in New York City. "Proud Democratic Socialist," Zohran Mamdani is likely to be my next mayor.  I'm not happy about it. But I am outnumbered.  Mamdani is popular. He won more primary votes than any other candidate in the city's history.   Minneapolis may also elect a socialist mayor. Why?! How deluded can voters be?   In my new video, I explain why their socialist ideas are destructive. Mamdani mocks those of us who fear socialism. He says socialism just means that the state "provides whatever is necessary for its people to live a dignified life."...........

•  Zohran Mamdani’s New York City Will Become Like Sadiq Khan’s London -  New Yorkers have long prided themselves on a city that balances diversity with order, but the rise of Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 mayoral race raises questions about whether that balance could tip toward the struggles plaguing London under Sadiq Khan’s leadership.........London’s crime rates have climbed steadily since Khan took office in 2016. ..............Immigration policies under Khan have also come under fire for contributing to these strains................ unchecked immigration has led to segregated communities, eroding the shared civic fabric that once defined London.............documented spike in antisemitic incidents across the UK, which accelerated after the October 7, 2023, attacks in Israel............ In London, this has left Jewish communities feeling vulnerable, a sentiment echoed in reports from organizations like the Community Security Trust.............

       

• Unearthed Video Shows Mamdani Bragging About Giving Taxpayer Money to Illegal Aliens

 

• Not Just NYC:  "Mamdani of Minneapolis" Shows Widening Rift in Democratic Party - First came Zohran Mamdani, an avowed socialist with scant executive experience, who in June shocked the Democratic mainstream when he captured its primary for New York City mayor. Now the rise of Omar Fateh—the so-called Mamdani of Minneapolis running for mayor there—is lending credence to the notion of a widening rift between the party’s centrist establishment and a progressive wing that has been energized by its opposition to Israel’s war in Gaza and demands for affordable housing..................

 

1. Only 23% of Democrats describe their party in positive terms
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Fauxcahontas claimed his government grocery store idea was a grand idea as it's worked elsewhere.  Really, then why didn't she name just one of these "elsewheres"?  My understanding is wherever this scheme was implemented they were financial fiascos such as in Kansas City where it lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, had empty shelves, and rotten food.         

     

So, given all that he stands for and all he's offering to New Yorkers, or perhaps I should say "imposing on" New Yorkers, what could possibly go wrong?  

Is George Will cruel or smart to wish Zohran Mamdani on New Yorkers? August 10, 2025 by Andrea Widburg I happen to think he’s right because Democrats need to experience their ideology in action, and the rest of America needs to watch this lesson play out. More