Sure, we Republicans have our problems with circular firing squads, but look at the Democrats and be glad you’re not them. After all, they’re about to elect a communist to be mayor of New York City. Not a wild-eyed liberal. Not even a socialist. Homeboy is a straight-up Instagram Karl Marx.
And it’s uniquely destructive, hopefully. It’s not that I wish anything bad on New York City. Oddly enough, while I’ve lived on several continents, the first time I visited New York City was in 2011, and it was wonderful. It was kind of like Las Vegas before the mob sold off the casinos and they started catering to obnoxious manchildren in cargo shorts playing quarter slots, a place you could go and be an adult and then go home after you got tired of it in about three days. At that time, NYC was still on the upswing after being cleaned up by Rudy Giuliani. Then New Yorkers, deciding that doing the things that made civilization civilized was mean, stopped doing them, and New York degenerated into a festering cesspool of weirdos, losers, and mutations, all wandering through a haze of dank weed smoke.
One would think that the smart play would be to find somebody who is going to put the city back together again. Eric Adams tried, and he’s on the ballot, but nobody likes him for whatever reason – something about corruption, but he doesn’t seem any more corrupt than the usual New York politician. Andrew Cuomo is on the ballot for some reason, and so is Curtis Sliwa, who is becoming the Harold Stassen of New York City politics. None of these guys can win, and none of their egos will allow them to drop out, so the winner by default is going to be Zohran Mamdani, the human nexus of all the worst aspects of Marxism and jihadism in one insufferable package. You gotta hand it to New York City. It didn’t seem possible to make things worse, but they found the perfect guy to do it.
This guy presses all the buttons, from re-distributing the means of production – hilariously, the Official Licensed™ fact-checkers officially proclaimed that this kind of talk had nothing to do with communism – to being for perversions, feminism, and, of course, Palestinian sympathizing. The city with the largest concentration of Jewish people outside of Israel is about to elect a guy who booed the end of “Schindler’s List.” I would advise against it, but as I’ve grown older, I’ve come to realize that I can’t care more about other people than they care about themselves.
New York richly deserves this guy, and I hope they get him good and hard. But the Democratic Party deserves him even more, and I hope it gets him even gooder and harder.
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Mamdani is the candidate of the kind of affluent white leftist who can either afford to get out of town or who can call up his parents to get him out of town. This is a boutique Bolshevik, the candidate of the gender studies majors and the girls with daddy issues. He’s the candidate of progressive pinkos of pallor. The working class, which is primarily minority, is absolutely against him. Blacks don’t want him. Hispanics don’t want him. The white working class doesn’t want him. But they have jobs, and therefore, they’re hard to organize and activate. The leisure leftist class has nothing better to do and plenty of money to spend, as well as an eager accomplice in the regime media. They’re going to install this guy, and it’s going to be hilarious. If you think the formerly Golden State’s Gavin Newsom is bad, wait until this commie goof gets hold of the Big Apple.
Spoiler: When the city goes bankrupt and crime gets even more rampant, it’s all going to be Trump’s fault because shut up, you’re racist.
But while they will effortlessly spin it in the five boroughs, outside, we’re all going to see what is happening. The regime media is no longer the gatekeeper. It doesn’t get to set the agenda, and it doesn’t get to establish the truth, which coincidentally is never remotely like the truth. No, we’re going to see New York go to hell, and we’re going to savor it.
You know who’s not savoring it? Chuck Schumer is not. While a bunch of Democrat dummies have rushed to praise the Marxist newcomer, Chuck Schumer has yet, as of this writing, to endorse him. Hakeem Jeffries has failed to endorse him, which is pretty amazing because Hakeem is a pretty dumb guy. But he’s not so dumb as not to see how poisonous to the Dem brand having a literal communist who kisses terrorist tush is in the rest of America. As GOP Congressman Mike Lawler of New York observed, this is going to put a lot of New York seats in play. It’s going to put seats in play all over the country. Between Governor Hairstyle and this Maoist moron, we Republicans are going to have plenty of ammunition for good, old-fashioned, compare-and-contrast messaging. Sure, history is against us keeping the House, much less expanding it, and we have tempests in the teapot like the whole Epstein nonsense occasionally sending us off on tangents if we get the economy going – and history tells a combination of tax cuts, deregulation, and not being communist gets the economy going – we’ve got a chance to run up the score in 2026 with Pol Pothead the cherry on top.
So, I’m all for Zohran Mamdani, for whatever that’s worth. Now, a lot of people thought that Donald Trump would be a disaster for us in 2016, and so pushed him, but he turned out to be a disaster for them. There’s always a chance this makes the guy a player and we come one step closer to the kind of nightmare scenario I write about in my new novel, "American Apocalypse: The Second Civil War" (coming July 17, 2025). Still, history teaches that anything communist touches turns into dung, so I’m not that worried. But again, it’s not like we have a choice – we’re flying standby here, and we’ve got to take the seat they give us. The people of New York City are going to do with the people of New York City as they do, regardless of our urgings, cajolings, or warnings. As legendary NYC mayor Ed Koch once observed, “The people have spoken … and they must be punished.”
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