Last week, Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as the 112th mayor of New York City. Mr. Mamdani is a “socialist democrat.” He doesn’t hide it. In fact, he campaigned openly as a neo-Marxist proponent of wealth redistribution, government-run grocery stores, government-owned housing and government-controlled transportation.
Mr. Mamdani is a graduate of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. He believes in the intersectional conflict of the proletariat versus the bourgeoisie and the utopian dreams of no borders, no private property and no possessions. It’s John Lennon’s one-world government where “all the people are living life as one” under the watchful eye of a Maoist Big Brother who obviously knows better than we peons about what we should be able to buy, where we should be able to live and which God we should be able to worship.
Speaking of worship, in addition to being a Marxist, Mr. Mamdani is a devout Muslim. As such, he chose to be sworn into office with his hand placed on not one but two Qurans. One was his grandfather’s, and the other was printed during the days of the Ottoman Empire and Islam’s dominance over much of southeastern Europe and Northeast Africa…