Jun 26, 2025 07:20 PM
(This post was last modified: Jun 26, 2025 08:19 PM by C C.)
RELATED (scivillage): Ugandan socialist (dual citizenship) will be the next mayor
An optimist's sensationalistic intro: After he wins in November and is sworn in January 1st, the good thing about Zohran Mamdani destroying NYC financially, and via DoK and freedom for criminal behavior, is that it will undermine the credibility of the city as the guiding power base of the Democratic Party. Which is an increasingly radicalized monkey that the Party desperately needs to get off its back in order to attract the mainstream public again. Comparison wise, the new mayor regime will be akin to the anti-capitalist anarchism branch of the historical Left rather than the one leading to the Soviet regime (the latter at least maintained law and order, albeit ruthlessly, and catered to some semblance of Western education standards).
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily...n-mamdani/
EXCERPTS: The political world is buzzing over the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, unexpectedly won by Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old Ugandan-born Muslim socialist who, in the course of his brief career in politics, has advocated defunding the police, freeing criminals, having the city take over grocery stores, and more. Mamdani does not have what one would call deep roots in American politics.
His most notable act in college, at Bowdoin, was to found a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. He wanted to vote for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in 2016 but could not because he was not a U.S. citizen at the time. He became a citizen in 2018, was elected in 2020 to represent Queens in the state assembly, and is now poised to lead the nation’s largest city.
The meteoric rise of a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, running as a Democrat, has caused a nervous breakdown among some in the national party. They’re trying to move Democrats — or the Democratic brand, as the consultants might call it — toward the center, to moderate their left-wing positions on immigration, wokeism, and other issues. And now, one of the most prominent Democrats in America will be a guy who seems connected to every left-wing cause in the country and the world.
[...] The New York contingent essentially is the leadership of the Democratic Party today. Yes, there are the Californians — the aged Nancy Pelosi, the failed former Vice President Kamala Harris, and the ambitious Gov. Gavin Newsom — but in a coastal party, it is the East Coast that is in command.
[...] After the 2024 election, Democratic pollster Mark Penn wrote that Trump was elected by “Americans who feel abandoned by the coastal elites and a Democratic Party that moved too far from mainstream America.” Voters, Penn said, “sent a clear message to the coastal elites that it is the working class and middle America that runs this country.”
That’s bad news for a party that is heavily concentrated in a few coastal enclaves. It’s even worse when the biggest coastal enclave shows its values by electing Mamdani. There are probably a lot of things Democrats might do to broaden their appeal beyond the coastal areas, but that is definitely not one of them... (MORE - details)
RUBIN REPORT
https://youtu.be/n5YsScLpVn0
VIDEO EXCERPTS: Charlie Kirk I thought nailed it quite nicely. The Muslim socialist running for New York City mayor -- Zorhan Mamdani -- is also obviously a con man. The only people dumb enough to support him are college educated. This poll is the single most damning indictment of higher education in America that I've seen.
[...] It's ironic that it is the educated elites who are going to usher in the thing that will destroy the city more than anything else. In some sense, maybe it's not ironic, because often literary intellectuals are so confined to their inner circles that they become out of touch with reality beyond their ideological representations of it. They usher in all of the bad ideas...
https://youtu.be/n5YsScLpVn0
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/n5YsScLpVn0
An optimist's sensationalistic intro: After he wins in November and is sworn in January 1st, the good thing about Zohran Mamdani destroying NYC financially, and via DoK and freedom for criminal behavior, is that it will undermine the credibility of the city as the guiding power base of the Democratic Party. Which is an increasingly radicalized monkey that the Party desperately needs to get off its back in order to attract the mainstream public again. Comparison wise, the new mayor regime will be akin to the anti-capitalist anarchism branch of the historical Left rather than the one leading to the Soviet regime (the latter at least maintained law and order, albeit ruthlessly, and catered to some semblance of Western education standards).
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily...n-mamdani/
EXCERPTS: The political world is buzzing over the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, unexpectedly won by Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old Ugandan-born Muslim socialist who, in the course of his brief career in politics, has advocated defunding the police, freeing criminals, having the city take over grocery stores, and more. Mamdani does not have what one would call deep roots in American politics.
His most notable act in college, at Bowdoin, was to found a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. He wanted to vote for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in 2016 but could not because he was not a U.S. citizen at the time. He became a citizen in 2018, was elected in 2020 to represent Queens in the state assembly, and is now poised to lead the nation’s largest city.
The meteoric rise of a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, running as a Democrat, has caused a nervous breakdown among some in the national party. They’re trying to move Democrats — or the Democratic brand, as the consultants might call it — toward the center, to moderate their left-wing positions on immigration, wokeism, and other issues. And now, one of the most prominent Democrats in America will be a guy who seems connected to every left-wing cause in the country and the world.
[...] The New York contingent essentially is the leadership of the Democratic Party today. Yes, there are the Californians — the aged Nancy Pelosi, the failed former Vice President Kamala Harris, and the ambitious Gov. Gavin Newsom — but in a coastal party, it is the East Coast that is in command.
[...] After the 2024 election, Democratic pollster Mark Penn wrote that Trump was elected by “Americans who feel abandoned by the coastal elites and a Democratic Party that moved too far from mainstream America.” Voters, Penn said, “sent a clear message to the coastal elites that it is the working class and middle America that runs this country.”
That’s bad news for a party that is heavily concentrated in a few coastal enclaves. It’s even worse when the biggest coastal enclave shows its values by electing Mamdani. There are probably a lot of things Democrats might do to broaden their appeal beyond the coastal areas, but that is definitely not one of them... (MORE - details)
RUBIN REPORT
https://youtu.be/n5YsScLpVn0
VIDEO EXCERPTS: Charlie Kirk I thought nailed it quite nicely. The Muslim socialist running for New York City mayor -- Zorhan Mamdani -- is also obviously a con man. The only people dumb enough to support him are college educated. This poll is the single most damning indictment of higher education in America that I've seen.
[...] It's ironic that it is the educated elites who are going to usher in the thing that will destroy the city more than anything else. In some sense, maybe it's not ironic, because often literary intellectuals are so confined to their inner circles that they become out of touch with reality beyond their ideological representations of it. They usher in all of the bad ideas...
https://youtu.be/n5YsScLpVn0