New York, New York! It’s a helluva town, and they are in big trouble. The residents of the Big Apple might need to follow the example of Snake Plissken and Escape from New York before the onetime premier American urbania turns into a heartless, hateful, surveillance-state dystopia!
In 2021, the voters placed their hopes in mayor Republican-turned-Democrat Eric Adams. He was a police officer, sounded off on improving public safety, and he didn’t give off the same woke Communist craziness of his blah-blah predecessor Bill de Blasio.
Four years later, Adams has more than fallen short. Crime didn’t improve that much, and the migrant crisis pushed the city to its limits. Adams faced corruption charges, to boot. What could one expect? Democratic elected officials don’t dare to buck their party, especially when it comes to pay-to-play. Politics is about getting re-elected, after all, and New York, especially the City, is prime Democratic territory.
The 2025 NYC mayoral primary shocked the entire political system. Zohran Mamdani, a trust-fund baby born in Uganda, Muslim, progressive, Bernie bro won the Democratic Primary, defeating former governor Andrew Cuomo.
Did I write “Bernie Bro” for Mamdani? He’s an all-out communist. He wants government-run grocery stores, free bus rides, and public child care, all starting at $30 an hour minimum wage! He wants to globalize the Palestinian Intifada, too, and defund the police. He’s Black Lives Matter with a keffiyeh. Did he check out what happened to St. Louis, MO, when they tried that ill-advised social experiment? Multiply that by ten, and pass it on to the woke, broke, joke Gothamites.
Adams quit the Democratic Party before the primary to run as an independent, and the voters have not favored him since. Cuomo, another sore loser, is also running as an Independent, and he’s competitive, but not winning, either.
What will New York City voters do come November? They have a failed governor/sex pest/creep who killed grandma by sending COVID-19 patients back into the nursing homes, all while shutting down the law-abiding citizens. Then they have a failed incumbent who cosplayed as MAGA for five minutes. I’ve written enough about damnable Mamdani.
And there’s Curt Sliwa. A perennial candidate, a Republican, and he wears red because he’s a Guardian Angel. When New York City police and public safety were dropping the ball (which is all too often), Sliwa and his team have been picking up the slack. Sliwa has been a consistent voice and arm for security and sanctity in the city. His Guardian Angels movement has sought to preserve and protect as many American citizens as possible, too.
He’s the only Republican currently running citywide in a widely Democratic hellscape of a city. New Yorkers have gotten wise before, gone right, and elected Republican mayors before (Guiliani, Bloomberg).
They could do it again, couldn’t they?
Conservative pundits in and around the Five Boroughs are not optimistic this time. Instead of going with the Republican, they are trying to get everyone to line up behind one of the two failed Democratic-turned-Independent candidates running for Mayor of New York.
Ann Coulter, Ryan James Girdusky, and others have sounded off that one of them must drop out to stop Mamdani the communist-Islamist-anti-Americanist from being the next mayor of New York.
They haven’t forgotten the Republican in the race; they just don’t think he has a chance.
This New York City problem—and America’s large urban areas in general—is much larger than a fraught mayoral election.
It’s getting to a point where there are no good candidates left. The urban elitist voters insist on someone Left, but just not as bad as the previous mayor. They don’t—or rather, won’t—understand that they have to ditch the Democratic Party itself and line up behind candidates with a different ideology, identity, individuality, and intelligence.
I remember covering the 2014 mayoral election in Rhode Island’s capital, Providence. There was the Democrat, Jorge Elorza, a progressive housing judge who would unleash the leftist wish. There was the Republican, a pro-single payer RINO named Dan Harrop who frequently sabotaged the state party for not electing him the next chairman.
And then there was Vincent “Buddy” Cianci, one of the most famous, infamous, notorious, felonious former mayors in the nation’s history. He served two separate tenures as mayor of Providence, and he was forced out both times because of felony convictions.
And there he was running for a third term in 2014. On his radio program, he declared that he still had this need to serve, and it had not been fulfilled. His need to serve, or his need to serve himself?
Providence voters didn’t have a good choice. One of the high-ranking officials in the Rhode Island Republican Party candidly admitted to me that he would not vote in the election if he were a resident of Providence – and remember, there was a Republican in the race. And just before the last debate among the three candidates, the local press exposed the Republican for donating to the Democratic candidate!
This terrible choice of bad, worse, or worst, and not being able to tell the difference, is fast becoming the norm in America’s inner cities.
New York City is about to face the same terrible fate.
At least Sliwa isn’t corrupt. He may not have a chance, but he’s New York City’s best chance for sanity. Every Gothamite should pull the lever for Sliwa, but the conservatives willing to give him a chance should prepare for the worst. There is no fixing the woke sickness that drives the vast majority of Democratic voters to give a Communist Silk Diaper Baby the major party nomination, after suffering one failure of Democratic leadership after another.
Perhaps Mamdani should get elected, driving the already ruined city to enjoy Detroit’s fate. After all, H. L. Mencken had a point: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
Perhaps New Yorkers haven’t gotten it hard enough.
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