Barring something we haven't seen, Zohran Mamdani is about to become the next mayor of New York City. It's the sign of the times for Democrats, who have learned nothing in the Trump era. Guys, you keep losing because your policies suck, and your autopsy is to go further into left-wing insanity. A dark time is coming for the city, and Democrats are about to become the brunt of jokes again when Mamdani's inexperience and atrocious public policy positions are enacted.
Don't take it from me. Last summer, a former supporter of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sounded the alarm (via NY Post):
A former AOC supporter has come out with a stark warning for young Big Apple voters in the wake of socialist Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic primary victory.
“If I was 25, I would’ve been obsessed with Zohran,” Lucy Biggers admits in a video she posted last week on X.
“Now I’m 35, and I’ve grown up. The feel-good promises of free college, free food, free housing might sound great, but they don’t work.”
She goes on to explain her view that socialist policies make cities poorer because rich people leave, while everyone else is left stuck with higher taxes — and little to show for it.
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
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“There’s a glorification of socialism among young people. They don’t know what happened in Cuba, Venezuela, the USSR. They glamorize these countries and are indoctrinated into thinking the US is bad. It’s very naive . . . it’s embarrassing,” she said, reflecting on her own views back then.
Voter energy behind Mamdani is authentic, but the enthusiasm is entirely misplaced, Biggers said.
That latter part isn't shocking, as the Left is laughably illiterate regarding history. But Democrats are a party that celebrates a couple of solid innings of baseball, thinking that's the end of the game. That's Mamdani in the primary and the general. The Democrats will rejoice, there will be weeks of "how this is the way" talks from the pundit class, and then the inevitable trainwreck that's to follow from free food, free busing, and defunding the police. And yes, Mamdani paling around with terrorists is a concern, and I wouldn't trust him handling a broken fire hydrant, let alone a major terror attack.
We all see the endgame here. Democrats don't—and I don't mind it. When this man fails, what do these little Trotskyites have left? Also, for these leftist, blue-haired clowns in Brooklyn, it must be nice for your parents to pay for everything you have, huh? And for those parents, this is what happens when you spoil your kids. By your late 20s, no matter what the circumstances, the kiddos ought to be paying for, I don't know, everything themselves. If not, you've got to tell them to get their heads out of their a**es.
Mamdani isn't unstoppable. There are more than enough voters to block him, but when Curtis Silwa and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo are the faces of the opposition, I can see how and why enthusiasm is next to dead. There was a chance to beat Mamdani, but ego is a deadly cancer in this game, and no one wanted to be the adult until it was too late. Eric Adams dropped out. Someone else should've as well to avoid this calamity.
In the meantime, Democrats will have their champagne, which will inevitably have them reaching for bleach when this all falls apart.
