New Yorkers like to think their city is indestructible. The imminent mayoral election of Zohran Mamdani is about to disabuse them.
And Mamdani’s rise is a harbinger for America itself.
Make no mistake: The all-but-assured victory of this inexperienced, rich-kid, soft-on-crime anti-Semitic socialist spells doom for this once-great metropolis.
The most important city in the world, struggling since well before the pandemic, will be no more.
Quality of life is down, crime is up, the homeless and mentally ill have run of the place, and office towers struggle to reach pre-pandemic tenancy levels.
Like so many cities killed by woke progressivism, politicians prefer to lock up toothpaste in drugstores rather than the criminals who steal and loot with impunity.
Mamdani’s no different. Scratch that — he’s worse.
But so much of the left-leaning media depicts him as a hero.
This is a candidate who, at 34 years old, has never held a real job, who grew up wealthy yet lives in a rent-controlled apartment, and who, just last week, was photographed with his arm around the homophobic accused-terrorist Siraj Wahhaj, who has championed ‘jihad’ against America.
Zohran Mamdani is a candidate who, at 34 years old, has never held a real job, who grew up wealthy yet lives in a rent-controlled apartment, and who, just last week, was photographed with his arm around the homophobic accused-terrorist Siraj Wahhaj (right), who has championed ‘jihad’ against America.
How far the left has come. You would think they’d at least have a problem with the homophobia.
‘Today at Masjid At-Taqwa, I had the pleasure of meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for nearly half a century,’ Mamdani wrote on X.
A pillar of the community! Wahhaj is a Muslim cleric who was a character witness, in federal court, for the mastermind behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
The city that survived 9/11 may not survive this.
What’s come to be known as ‘The Mamdani Effect’ has taken hold — the correlation of wealthy New Yorkers fleeing the city along with Mamdani’s rise.
‘I have never seen this type of reaction to a mayor,’ Corcoran Group broker Alexandra Carter told Fortune magazine. ‘It’s been pretty drastic. After he won the primary, we had a company-wide call on implications for business because of [Mamdani’s proposed] rent freezes.’
The city has already lost more than $14 billion in income after hemorrhaging 125,000 residents — many decamping to Florida, where there is no income tax — in recent years.
The bulk of those fleeing are high earners.
You know, the ones Mamdani promises to tax even more punitively to pay for his promised free day care and free bus rides (regardless of means), rent freezes, and government-owned, price-controlled grocery stores.
Ideas that recall Fidel Castro and Stalin. History’s real winners.
The city that survived 9/11 may not survive this. What’s come to be known as ‘The Mamdani Effect’ has taken hold – the correlation of wealthy New Yorkers fleeing the city along with Mamdani’s rise.
The bulk of those fleeing NYC are high earners. You know, the ones Mamdani promises to tax even more punitively to pay for his promised free day care and free bus rides (regardless of means), rent freezes, and government-owned, price-controlled grocery stores (pictured with his film director mother in 2016).
Of course, The New York Times and its ilk champion Mamdani all the way. It’s sick, perverse and a total reframing of the facts.
‘Mamdani Faces Vitriolic Attacks After Comments About Hamas,’ reads one headline from October 16. Comments are turned off.
Repeatedly refusing to condemn ‘globalize the intifada’ will do that. But Mamdani, the Times posits, is the real victim here.
Another howler: ‘How Mamdani Proposes to make the City Safer’ — September 15.
This is a mayoral candidate who wants social workers, not police, to respond to domestic violence calls; who wants higher taxes for white neighborhoods; who is pro-prostitution and wants to abolish all misdemeanor crimes; and who has questioned whether prisons serve a purpose or should even exist.
‘Violence is an artificial construction,’ he said in 2021.
Tell that to the subway car full of terrified passengers as Jordan Neely, a deranged homeless man, threatened to start killing people.
Tell that to Marine veteran Daniel Penny — who subdued Neely in a headlock. Neely died from multiple complications, but Penny nonetheless stood trial for second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.
A jury of Penny’s peers — 12 New Yorkers — acquitted him. I guess they don’t see violence as a ‘construct’.
Mamdani also refuses to denounce Hamas, October 7, or those calls to ‘globalize the intifada’ — the call to end Jews and the state of Israel.
Yet New York City — home to more Jews than anywhere outside Israel — is poised to make this guy their leader.
How much self-hatred do New Yorkers have? If there’s one thing they pride themselves on, it’s being able to see right through a charlatan, a con artist, a hustler.
And trust me: Mamdani is a hustler.
President Trump, himself a native New Yorker, weighed in at a White House presser on Tuesday.
‘I love New York,’ he said. ‘I’ve always loved New York. I just can’t believe a thing like this is happening. With a communist in charge… it’s been done many times, [for] a thousand years. It’s never worked once. So it’s not going to work now.’
Trump is dead-on. So how could this be happening?
How is it that the greatest city in the world (for now) — home to the wealthiest, most highly-educated, successful, sophisticated population — is about to pull the lever for a danger like Mamdani?
In a Sophie’s Choice election — Mamdani’s closest rival is disgraced New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who forcibly sent the elderly to their certain deaths in nursing homes at the height of Covid and ultimately stepped down over sex pest claims — it seems liberal New Yorkers want revenge for the election of Trump.
And Mamdani — a communist, defund-the-police, Hamas-sympathizing, hypocritical rules-for-thee, not-for-me wealth distributor — arrives to meet the moment.
That old saw — ‘don’t cut off your nose to spite your face’ — has never felt more apt.
At that same White House presser on Tuesday, Trump was asked if the Democratic Party was Mamdani’s now.
‘It probably is, yeah,’ Trump said.
With the election of Zohran Mamdani, New York City will join other once-great metropolises — San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Chicago — undone by woke progressivism.
But hey, at least we’ll be #1.
