For me, a native New Yorker, watching the Democratic Party nominate a socialist jihadi apologist for mayor less than 25 years after 9/11 is infuriating. Not because Zohran Mamdani is a Muslim, but because he embraces “globalizing the intifada,” a violent, terroristic slogan aimed at his Jewish neighbors — in a city where they have increasingly been targeted.
There’s no need to soft-pedal what’s happening. Even as national media worked to moderate the candidate’s image, Mamdani was campaigning with popular leftist Twitcher and Jew-baiter Hasan Piker, who once said, “America deserved 9/11.” In 1984, it was a scandal that Jesse Jackson called New York “Hymietown.” By today’s standards, it seems frivolous.
Then, of course, Mamdani supports rent controls, price controls, government-run stores, new regulatory burdens, and redistribution. In the past, he backed dismantling the police, even though public safety is allegedly the top issue on the minds of New Yorkers. But Mamdani isn’t a product of the old-fashioned class-based socialistic tradition that’s been, to some extent, embedded in our politics for over a century. He is an adherent of a reinvigorated red-green alliance, in which Marxists, Islamists, Third World revolutionaries, and, now, champions of quack and identitarian causes align…